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cities proper

cities proper is the plural of city proper.

Meaning of city proper

Noun

city proper (plural cities proper)

  1. The geographical area contained within the city limits.

Questions about cities proper

What is cities proper the plural of?
Cities proper is the plural of city proper.

Words near cities proper in the dictionary

  1. citie
  2. citied
  3. cities
  4. cities and counties
  5. cities of refuge
  6. cities proper
  7. citification
  8. citifications
  9. citified
  10. citifies
  11. citify

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cities proper (page history and authors); city proper (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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