cities
Syllables: cit·ies/ˈsɪtiz/
cities is the plural of city.
cities is the plural of citie.
Meaning of city
Noun
city (plural cities)
- A large settlement, bigger than a town; sometimes with a specific legal definition, depending on the place.
- São Paulo is the largest city in South America.
- A settlement granted special status by royal charter or letters patent; traditionally, a settlement with a cathedral regardless of size.
- Manchester, incorporated in 1838, was made the centre of a bishopric in 1847 and became a city in 1853. Liverpool was transformed into a city by Royal Charter when the new diocese of Liverpool was created in 1880.1976, Cornelius P. Darcy, The Encouragement of the Fine Arts in Lancashire, 1760-1860, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 20
- The central business district; downtown.
- I'm going into the city today to do some shopping.
- A large amount of something (used after the noun).
- It’s video game city in here!
Phrases with cities
- beta cities
- core cities
- edge cities
- free cities
- hero cities
- host cities
- open cities
- port cities
- Quad Cities
- slab cities
- star cities
- twin cities
44 more phrasesFewer phrases
- alpha cities
- donut cities
- first cities
- gamma cities
- inner cities
- radio cities
- smart cities
- cities proper
- closed cities
- garden cities
- global cities
- hidden cities
- mother cities
- second cities
- sister cities
- sponge cities
- capital cities
- caravan cities
- central cities
- control cities
- federal cities
- gigabit cities
- million cities
- primate cities
- doughnut cities
- treasure cities
- 15-minute cities
- cardboard cities
- cathedral cities
- chocolate cities
- cities of refuge
- Hanseatic cities
- principal cities
- sanctuary cities
- satellite cities
- independent cities
- state-level cities
- cities and counties
- cosmological cities
- county-level cities
- metropolitan cities
- free imperial cities
- province-level cities
- prefecture-level cities
Words that rhyme with cities
Questions about cities
- What is cities the plural of?
- Cities is the plural of city.
- How do you pronounce cities?
- Cities is pronounced /ˈsɪtiz/.
Words near cities in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: cities (page history and authors); city (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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