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# city

«city» in Mova's school dictionary: **a very large town where many people live and work** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (city, cities)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A city is a very large town where many people live and work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/city/#m1)

2) The city can mean the people who live there. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/city/#m2)

3) In some countries a city is a town that has been given that special title, often because it has a cathedral. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/city/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

a setting; people in a city (large numbers), distances between cities, buses or trains between cities; in geography cities have tall buildings, many roads, offices, museums and parks; in everyday life and safety: busy streets, crossing at lights, public transport; phrases: «city centre» (UK) / «downtown» (US), «capital city», «city hall»

### examples

- The city has 45,000 people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/city/#x1)
- The two cities are 120 miles apart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/city/#x2)
- A train goes from one city to another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/city/#x3)
- How far is it to the city? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/city/#x4)
- London is the capital city of the United Kingdom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/city/#x5)
- We visited a museum in the city centre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/city/#x6)
- Many people in the city take the bus or the subway to work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/city/#x7)
- At night the city lights shine for miles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/city/#x8)
- Sydney is the biggest city in Australia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/city/#x9)
- “Where is this city?” asked Dorothy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/city/#x10)

### note

A word of the story; large numbers (thousands) often belong to the population. Trap: a distance «between two cities» is counted once. Plural: cities (y → ies). Size order: village < town < city. A city's name starts with a capital letter.

### In the corpora

- [Vivid example: in a kitchen in Manchester the six o'clock news shows smoke over a city and the word "missiles".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/3/)
- [Some cities have legal walls, also called free walls, where graffiti is allowed, and the paintings change quickly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/19-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism/8/)
- [City animals are wild animals, so watch them, but do not feed, chase or touch them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/4/)
- [Picture a city garden at midnight: a fox trots past the bins and somewhere a rabbit freezes, then zigzags away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/3/)
- [Red foxes live on more continents than any other wild meat-eating mammal, and many live in cities such as London.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «city» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/city/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.