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City vs Midtown - What's the difference?

city | midtown |

As nouns the difference between city and midtown

is that city is a large settlement, bigger than a town while midtown is (us) the part of a city between uptown and downtown.

city

English

(wikipedia city)

Alternative forms

* cyte

Noun

(cities)
  • A large settlement, bigger than a town.
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  • *
  • *:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city'; the ' city of one's dreams.
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    • , title= It's a gas , passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city ’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
  • (lb) The central business district; downtown.
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    • Derived terms

    (Terms derived from the above definition of "city") * citify * citizen * city banker * city block * city boy * city center * city centre * city clerk * city desk * city district * city father * city girl * city hall * city limit * city line * city man * city manager * city planning * city room * city slicker * city-state * cityscape * citywide * (l) * holy city * inner city/inner-city * sister city * the city * twin city (city)

    Related terms

    * civic * civil

    See also

    * metropolis * megalopolis * megacity

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    midtown

    English

    (wikipedia midtown)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (US) The part of a city between uptown and downtown