Phrase Hound found 60 phrases and 42 compound words that contain cities. The most common are listed below. Open cities in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 60
- Big cities
- Two Cities
- capital citiesplural of capital city: A city that is a seat of government.
- Twin CitiesThe metropolitan area of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota.
- inner citiesplural of inner city: Of, pertaining to, or situated in the central part of a city, especially an older, populous area of low-income or immigrant families.
- Largest Cities
- Quad CitiesA region of cities (originally four) in the U.S. states of Iowa and Illinois: Davenport and Bettendorf in southeastern Iowa, and Rock Island, Moline and East Moline in northwestern Illinois.
- control citiesplural of control city: A city listed as a destination on highway signs.
- federal citiesplural of federal city: A title applied variously to Bonn (Germany), Bern (Switzerland), or Sevastopol (Crimea).
- free citiesplural of free city: Any of various types of city of Europe from classical to modern times, characterised by relative autonomy and/or being responsible only and directly to a king or emperor; a more modern city of such type, sometimes …
- garden citiesplural of garden city: Any of several planned, self-contained communities, surrounded by "green belts", containing proportionate areas of residences, industry, and agriculture.
- global citiesplural of global city: A city that serves as a primary node in the global economic network; a metropolis.
- independent citiesplural of independent city: A city that does not form part of another general-purpose local government entity.
- port citiesplural of port city: A city built around a port, for its defence, to provide infrastructural support, or as parasitic urban sprawl.
- core citiesplural of core city: Synonym of central city (“the main city of a metropolitan area; particularly one containing multiple cities”).
- satellite citiesplural of satellite city: A self-contained city, as opposed to a mere suburb, on the periphery of a metropolitan area.
- edge citiesplural of edge city: A concentration of business, shopping, and entertainment locations outside a traditional downtown (or central business district), in what was previously a residential or rural area.
- closed citiesplural of closed city: 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.
- smart citiesplural of smart city: A municipality that uses information and communications technology, such as electronic sensors, to increase efficiency and improve the quality of services.
- cities of refugeplural of city of refuge: Any of six levitical towns in the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah in which the perpetrators of accidental manslaughter could claim the right of asylum.
- cities and countiesUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see city, county.
- principal citiesplural of principal city: Synonym of central city (“the main city of a metropolitan area; particularly one containing multiple cities”).
- alpha citiesplural of alpha city: A city that links a major economic state or region into the world economy.
- hidden citiesplural of hidden city: A connecting city between the origin and destination of a passenger flight, where a passenger can save money on the airfare by disembarking rather than continuing to the destination.
- sister citiesplural of sister city: A foreign city with which a city has a declared relationship of cordiality.
Compound words 42
- capacitiesplural of capacity: The ability to hold, receive, or absorb.
- velocitiesplural of velocity: A vector quantity that denotes the rate of change of position with respect to time, combining speed with a directional component.
- GeoCitiesplural of GeoCity: A community of common interests on GeoCities.
- opacitiesplural of opacity: The state or quality of being opaque, not allowing light to pass through.
- megacitiesplural of megacity: A very large city; a megalopolis, typically one with population over 10 million.
- scarcitiesplural of scarcity: The condition of something being scarce or deficient.
- monocitiesplural of monocity: A city (especially in the former Soviet Union) in which most of the working population work in the same industry, typically for the same organisation.
- adicitiesplural of adicity: The number of arguments or operands a function or operation takes. For a relation, the number of domains in the corresponding Cartesian product.
- agrocitiesplural of agrocity: A city designed around the practice of agriculture.
- ampacitiesplural of ampacity: The root mean square of the electrical current which a device (usually a wire) can carry within a specific environment (including temperature rating, power loss, heat dissipation, etc.) It is measured in amperes (amps) …