inner city
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- noun
- /ˈɪnər ˈsɪti/
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barrio marginal
- Many of our students come from the inner city, having no concept of what to expect.
- an inner-city school
- an inner-city area
- an inner-city neighborhood
And it's, it's more, more beautiful than any rapper from the inner cities.
- And it's, it's more, more beautiful than any rapper from the inner cities.
- I've gone to mission trips to Jamaica, to Africa, to China, to the inner cities in Dayton, OH.
- There was dad out there concerned about youth in the ghetto, as of course inner city was known back then.
- You'll see kids who really had no chance, kids from inner cities where the real problem was discipline in the school.
- And I didn't know they were doing that, you know, walking through the inner cities of Ohio, praying on the low income people of those of those cities.
- We're talking about inner city in the music industry and I'm guessing a fairly young crowd or a music loving crowd.
Examples
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There's hope in the inner city.
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And the problem is no longer limited to the inner city.
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You went to an inner city school, which is somewhat famous.
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Well, we're looking at new and innovative ways to provide affordable public housing in the inner city.
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All children, middle class or inner city, could be well served by such consideration.
Academic text (1992) -
The four students attended an elementary school located in inner-city Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Academic text (2012) -
I had just spent the last five days in Chicago working at an inner-city daycare for underprivileged children.
Fiction book (2001) -
Many community organizations focus on improving conditions in the inner city to help its residents.
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She dedicated her career to teaching children in the inner city to provide them with better opportunities.
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The inner city faced significant challenges, including high unemployment and a lack of access to healthcare.
Antonyms
How Central
Surface Forms
Morphology
The core meaning ‘central part of a city’ is directly and compositionally derived from 'inner' (nearer the center) + 'city' (urban area), so a learner who knows both words can infer the phrase. While the term can carry additional socioeconomic connotations in some contexts, the basic spatial/central sense is transparent and cross-linguistically accessible.
Etymology
Inner city shows the idea of the inner part of the city, a simple image of the old central area where people lived close together and richer people moved away to newer neighborhoods. So today inner city often means the 'central part' of a town with more people and often more poverty or social problems.