World Trade Center
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3.4
- proper noun
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World Trade Center
- The World Trade Center was a significant landmark until its destruction on September 11, 2001.
- World Trade Center attack
- World Trade Center and Pentagon
- plane struck the World Trade Center
So I grew up with my mom telling me about going to the World Trade Center while it was being built.
- So I grew up with my mom telling me about going to the World Trade Center while it was being built.
- When the hijackers were about to fly their planes into the World Trade Center, what did they say?
- I, I represented it as the New York, the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
- And as he's doing this, the first plane hits the World Trade Center, which is where the conference was, and his colleague Elaine is killed in in the explosion.
- I can't make sense out of someone who straps a bomb on themselves and goes and blows up a bus in Tel Aviv or flies a plane into the World Trade Center.
- But she hated the neighborhood at night, without the World Trade Center, whose blazing freeways of light had always filled her with hope, She was tired of Alex.
- And it also set fire to Seven World Trade Center.
- Let's just talk briefly about the World Trade Centre.
- And then I was next to the World Trade Centre in the Lower East Side on my roof.
- You know, we weren't allowed to say, wait a minute, Saddam Hussein didn't really bomb the World Trade Center.
Examples
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One week after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
Academic text (2002) -
Windows on the World was a restaurant on the top floor of one of the World Trade Center towers.
Fiction book (1998) -
So I grew up with my mom telling me about going to the World Trade Center while it was being built.
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Send everything you got to the World Trade Center now.
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Yeah, take a look at the World Trade Center.
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Like building number seven at the World Trade Center?
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I used to describe my home as providing a clear view of the World Trade Center.
Academic text (2001) -
So in two days cancer takes as many lives as died in the World Trade Center tragedy.
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Our family lives 12 miles from where the World Trade Center towers used to stand.
Blog text (9) -
Headquartered in Manhattan, the engineering firm is involved in the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site.
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
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Two tall buildings in New York destroyed on September 11, 2001
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Two identical tall buildings in New York that were destroyed in the 2001 terrorist attacks
Surface Forms
Morphology
At a basic compositional level a learner who knows 'world' + 'trade' + 'center' can infer 'a center/building for international trade', so they will likely understand it denotes a place connected to global commerce. However, the specific historical referent (the twin skyscraper complex in New York and its destruction on 9/11) is encyclopedic and not derivable from the constituents, so full understanding requires prior cultural knowledge.
Etymology
World Trade Center was named because it was meant to be a central place for world trade, meaning 'business between countries', and center, meaning 'main place'. Because the complex included the famous twin towers in New York and was destroyed in the 2001 attacks, the name now also reminds people of that place and those events.