Phrase Hound found 925 phrases and 84 compound words that contain city. The most common are listed below. Open city in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 925
- New York CityThe largest city in the United States, situated in the state of New York at the mouth of the Hudson River on the northeastern Atlantic Coast.
- city hallThe building that houses a city's government.
- City of LightNickname for Paris: the capital and largest city of France.
- city councilA governing body of people elected to oversee management of a city and represent the interests of residents.
- city stateA sovereign city, as in Ancient Greece, often part of a league of such cities.
- inner-cityOf, pertaining to, or situated in the central part of a city, especially an older, populous area of low-income or immigrant families.
- city centreUK standard spelling of city center.
- Atlantic CityA resort city on Absecon Island, Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States.
- Mexico CityThe capital city of Mexico.
- Oklahoma CityThe capital city of Oklahoma, United States, and the county seat of Oklahoma County.
- Kansas CityA large metropolitan area straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA. Kansas City is split into two separate cities:
- Panama CityThe capital city of Panama.
- port cityA city built around a port, for its defence, to provide infrastructural support, or as parasitic urban sprawl.
- city centerThe central business and shopping area of a city.
- key to the cityAn ornamental key sometimes given as a symbol of a freedom of the city.
- garden cityAny of several planned, self-contained communities, surrounded by "green belts", containing proportionate areas of residences, industry, and agriculture.
- Music CityNickname for Nashville: the capital city of Tennessee, United States.
- freedom of the cityThe rights and privileges enjoyed by the freemen of medieval cities (their "citizens"), but not by outsiders, bondsmen, or others.
- open cityA city which has announced (during wartime) that it has abandoned all defensive efforts, generally in the event of its imminent capture.
- free cityAny 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 elsewhere than in Europe.
- city carA small car designed to be used primarily in urban areas and conurbations.
- Salt Lake CityThe capital city of Utah, United States, and the county seat of Salt Lake County.
- city and countya local authority area formed by uniting the territory of a county and a city
- City of New YorkLong form of New York: a city in the state of New York, United States.
- capital cityA city that is a seat of government.
Compound words 84
- TricityA metropolitan area of Poland consisting of the three cities Gdańsk, Gdynia and Sopot
- cybercityA city with a strong basis in information technology.
- citysideWorking in the city.
- undercityA subterranean city.
- citybusAlternative form of city bus (“a bus for use in a city”).
- cidiotAn idiot from the city.
- citymanA man from a city.
- gigacityA city even larger in scale than a megacity.
- citywearClothing to be worn in the city.
- CitianA native or inhabitant of Citium.