downtown
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1.8
- adjective
- /ˈdaʊnˌtaʊn/
- US
:
del centro
- The best restaurants are located in the downtown area of the city.
- office in downtown
And he came through LA, so I went down to downtown Los Angeles.
- And he came through LA, so I went down to downtown Los Angeles.
- And you'd see these UFOs flying through the the skies of downtown Los Angeles.
- Six square blocks of the downtown part, not the Strip, but the downtown part, which is kind of downtrodden.
- So this was the fight was pushing a little bit S towards downtown Mosul, like old city center.
- So they pitched to the city, say they focus on job creation and the downtown revitalization.
- Like where I'm at, It's it's not like downtown LA.
- OK, so maybe being cut off while I'm driving in downtown Toronto.
- And the only thing I've done is ride a bike for a couple miles to see what downtown Menlo Park is like.
- The first one is the downtown Cool, which is really, really nice.
- It's moving as a team, small unit tactics in and out of urban environments, downtown cities, stuff like that.
Examples
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Though few people knew it, Southern Spice was opening a second restaurant in downtown Royal Oak.
Fiction book (1998) -
... and it took place in a downtown federal courtroom.
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We pull up to the emergency room of a hospital somewhere in downtown Brooklyn.
Fiction book (2001) -
For several years, he worked at a hat factory in downtown Guatemala.
Fiction book (1999) -
And so I leased the whole floor of a downtown office building in Cincinnati, OH.
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The Federal Gold Depository in downtown Manhattan.
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And the day after it came out, he started donating time at the shelter in downtown Seattle.
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She has a dance studio in downtown Bridgeport.
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Four years later, the museum relocated to the main library branch in downtown Clarksdale, where it continued to grow.
Academic text (2009) -
Seth walks into a dimly lit bar in downtown Manhattan.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
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3.3
In the central part of a city near shops and offices
Antonyms
How Central
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Downtown comes from down + town, with down meaning 'toward the central part' of a city. That's why as an adjective downtown describes places or things that are in the city's main area.