central city

noun

1. a city at the center of a metropolitan area.

Word History and Origins

Origin of central city¹

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

Early in the war, Ms Wahidi was displaced with her family to the central city of Deir al-Balah and set up a temporary school to help children like her own who were missing their education.

From BBC

While walking the noisy, packed streets of the central city, with the engines of London Transport double-decker buses roaring, horns tooting and newspaper sellers shouting the headlines of the latest European crisis, he muses:

From Salon

Vietnam Airlines cancelled at least 22 flights to and from central cities on Sunday and Monday.

From BBC

In Portugal, around 15 people were also injured - one critically - while fighting fires on Tuesday near the central city of Sabugal, news agency AFP reported.

From BBC

A minute's silence was held at some gatherings in memory of a 24-year-old Polish woman murdered in the central city of Torun.

From BBC

Related Words

• downtown 
• slum