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down-town

down-town is the alternative form of downtown.

Meaning of downtown

Adverb

downtown (not generally comparable, comparative further downtown or farther downtown or more downtown, superlative furthest downtown or farthest downtown or most downtown)

  1. (not comparable, usually) In or towards the central business district.
    • You need to go downtown four blocks.
  2. (not comparable, usually) Outside the three-point line, or generally far from the basket.
    • That shot came from way downtown!

See all 6 meanings of downtown

Questions about down-town

What is down-town the alternative form of?
Down-town is the alternative form of downtown.

Words near down-town in the dictionary

  1. down-to-earther
  2. down-to-earthers
  3. down-to-earthiness
  4. down-to-earthness
  5. down-to-the-wire
  6. down-town
  7. down-turn
  8. down-turns
  9. down-vote
  10. downable
  11. downage

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Adapted from Wiktionary: down-town (page history and authors); downtown (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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