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donut city

donut city is the alternative form of doughnut city.

Meaning of doughnut city

Noun

doughnut city (plural doughnut cities)

  1. A city whose centre has deteriorated or declined as a result of rapid growth of the surrounding suburbs.

Forms of donut city

pluraldonut cities

Questions about donut city

What is donut city the alternative form of?
Donut city is the alternative form of doughnut city.

Words near donut city in the dictionary

  1. donut bumpers
  2. donut bumping
  3. donut cake
  4. donut cakes
  5. donut cities
  6. donut city
  7. donut hole
  8. donut holes
  9. donut patrol
  10. donut peach
  11. donut peaches

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Adapted from Wiktionary: donut city (page history and authors); doughnut 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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