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A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small.

The meaning of CITY is an inhabited place of greater size, population, or importance than a town or village. How to use city in a sentence.

Dec 2, 2025 · City, relatively permanent and highly organized center of population, of greater size or importance than a town or village. The name city is given to certain urban communities by virtue of …

A city is an area in which a large number of people live fairly close together. Cities usually have their own separate governments and systems for maintaining and providing utilities and transportation.

(Definition of city from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

“City Proper” independently or combined with other conceptual definitions is an obvious source of recurrent controversy, and tends to produce inaccurate information on the city population. The Urban …

People in a city live close together, so they cannot grow all their own food or gather their own water or energy. People also create waste and need a place to put it.

Chicago is the third largest city in the United States, with a population of nearly three million people. Its scenic lakeside location, world-class cultural offerings and unique architecture are just some of the …

CITY definition: 1. a large town: 2. any town in the UK that has a cathedral (= large, important church): 3. the…. Learn more.