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THE CITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Used to allude to the securities industry of Great Britain
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("the City" is a kind of...):
market; securities industry (the securities markets in the aggregate)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The part of London situated within the ancient boundaries; the commercial and financial center of London
Synonyms:
City of London; the City
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
center; centre; eye; heart; middle (an area that is approximately central within some larger region)
Holonyms ("the City" is a part of...):
British capital; capital of the United Kingdom; Greater London; London (the capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center)
Context examples:
I too shall go, but I shall gladly come again, if you will gif me leave, dear madame, for a little business in the city will keep me here some days.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Then they went out of the city, and drove the geese on.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The city’s two million inhabitants and 500,000 vehicles add to the pollution released by thermoelectric plants to produce a plume that moves into surrounding areas through wind patterns.
(Tiny pollutants intensify storms in the Amazon, SciDev.Net)
The district is occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
(District of Columbia, NCI Thesaurus)
The holders of the lists occupied the end which was nearest to the city gate.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If these feelings had not found an imaginary gratification, the appearance of the city had yet in itself sufficient beauty to obtain our admiration.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Seeing, I suppose, some expression in my face strange to him, he added:—"Ah, sir, you dwellers in the city cannot enter into the feelings of the hunter."
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Thousands of years ago, Plato wrote about the civilization, noting that its incredible technological advancements and wealth had no equal and that the city was ultimately destroyed by some terrible event.
(Researchers Claim to Have Found Mythical City of Atlantis in Spain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
When summer came on, he elected to sweat out a hot and dusty existence in the city and to toil incessantly.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Here, in the City of London, was the taproot from which Empire and wealth and so many other fine leaves had sprouted.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
