Obesity vs City - What's the difference?
obesity | city |
As a noun obesity is the state of being obese due to an excess of body fat. As a proper noun city is (uk) a popular shortened form of the city of london, the historic core of london where the roman settlement of londinium was established.
obesity English
Derived terms
* diabesity
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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.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
, 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
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* 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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