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closed city

closed city noun: 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.

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

Antonyms of closed city

Forms of closed city

pluralclosed cities

Questions about closed city

What does closed city mean?
Closed city means 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.
What part of speech is closed city?
Closed city is a noun.
What is the plural of closed city?
The plural of closed city is closed cities.

Words near closed city in the dictionary

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

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