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downtown

downtown

1.6
Toward the main part of a city where many offices and shops are
  • adverb
  • /ˈdaʊnˌtaʊn/
  • US
translation icon : al centro
  • So we're going to head downtown to a Grand Central Market.

So let's go head downtown and pay Armani a visit.

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Examples

  • After lunch, we walked downtown to explore the shops and galleries.

  • But when I graduated from high school, I and my group of buddies, maybe four of us, went downtown and went to all the recruiting sites.

  • And then making our way downtown, walking fast.

  • Today I woke up and went down, went downtown with a bunch of people.

  • I go meet my boy downtown, gets in the car, let's go.

    Julian Dorey

  • I'm making my way downtown, walking fast and I'm home bound.

  • It was kind of hard to understand, but I think I found my way downtown walking fast.

  • So let's go head downtown and pay Armani a visit.

    Allana Davison

  • And then I went on a walk with my mom downtown and I didn't even know I had the virus.

  • We decided to go downtown to enjoy the festival and see the performances.

Antonyms

uptown
  • US
35 3.2

Toward or in the upper part of a city

How Central

downtown
  • US
1.6

Surface Forms

downtown positive

Morphology

downtown = town (transparent) = down + town

Adverbial sense ('toward the centre') follows directly from combining 'down' (toward) + 'town' and is immediately clear. [Postprocessing: moved 'down' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Downtown combines down and town, where down once meant moving 'toward the center' of the city. So as an adverb, downtown means going or moving to the city's main area.