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CITY DISTRICT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A district of a town or city
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("city district" is a kind of...):
district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "city district"):
fringe; outskirt (a part of the city far removed from the center)
enterprise zone (a city district where development receives special tax advantages)
turf (the territory claimed by a juvenile gang as its own)
combat zone; tenderloin (a city district known for its vice and high crime rate)
slum; slum area (a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions)
waterfront (the area of a city (such as a harbor or dockyard) alongside a body of water)
quarter (a district of a city having some distinguishing character)
red-light district (a district with many brothels)
ghetto (a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions)
business district; downtown (the central area or commercial center of a town or city)
precinct (a district of a city or town marked out for administrative purposes)
Barbary Coast (a part of a city that is notorious for gambling dens and brothels and saloons and riotous night life (especially the waterfront of San Francisco after the gold rush of 1849))
Instance hyponyms:
Times Square (the area of Manhattan around the intersection of Broadway and Seventh Avenue; heart of the New York theater district; site of annual celebration of New Year's)
off-Broadway (low-budget theaters located outside the Broadway area in Manhattan)
SoHo; South of Houston (a district in southwestern Manhattan noted for its shops and restaurants and galleries and artist's lofts)
Hell's Half Acre; Hell's Kitchen (a district in Manhattan formerly noted for its slums and vice)
Harlem (a district of Manhattan; now largely a Black ghetto)
Coney Island (a section of Brooklyn on the Atlantic; known as an amusement center)
Beacon Hill (a fashionable section of Boston; site of the Massachusetts capital building)
Nob Hill (a fashionable neighborhood in San Francisco)
Hollywood (a district of Los Angeles long associated with the American film industry)
West End (the part of west central London containing the main entertainment and shopping areas)
Wembley (a southeastern part of Greater London that is the site of the English national soccer stadium)
Soho (a city district of central London now noted for restaurants and nightclubs)
Bloomsbury (a city district of central London laid out in garden squares)
West Berlin (the part of Berlin under United States and British and French control until 1989)
Holonyms ("city district" is a part of...):
city (an incorporated administrative district established by state charter)
