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closed cities

closed cities is the plural of closed city.

Meaning of closed city

Noun

closed city (plural closed cities)

  1. Any of several settlements, especially in the Soviet Union (historically) or Russia (today), that have travel and residency restrictions, typically because they house sensitive nuclear or defense facilities.
    • [A] man with a gravelly, slow-talking, New Mexico drawl, Glassmire had built a career as a respected scientist who had worked as an engineer for Los Alamos National Laboratory in the mid-fifties, when Los Alamos was still a closed city.2017 January 3, Douglas Preston, The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN
    Antonyms:
    open city

Questions about closed cities

What is closed cities the plural of?
Closed cities is the plural of closed city.

Words near closed cities in the dictionary

  1. closed casket
  2. closed circuit
  3. closed circuits
  4. closed circulatory system
  5. closed circulatory systems
  6. closed cities
  7. closed city
  8. closed class
  9. closed comedo
  10. closed comedone
  11. closed comedones

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