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downtown
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun downtown has 1 sense
- downtown(n = noun.location) business district - the central area or commercial center of a town or city; "the heart of Birmingham's downtown" is a kind of city district
has particulars: tin pan alley
Derived form adjective downtown1
Adjective downtown has 1 sense
- downtown(a = adj.all) Array - of or located in the lower part of a town, or in the business center; "downtown Manhattan"; "delinquents roaming the downtown streets" Derived form noun downtown1
Antonym: uptown
Adverbial downtown has 1 sense
OXFORD DICTIONARY
downtown, adj., n., & adv. US
--adj. of or in the lower or more central part, or the business part, of a town or city.
--n. a downtown area.
--adv. in or into a downtown area.
--adj. of or in the lower or more central part, or the business part, of a town or city.
--n. a downtown area.
--adv. in or into a downtown area.
THESAURUS
downtown
Bowery, Chinatown, East End, East Side, Little Hungary, Little Italy, West End, West Side, barrio, black ghetto, blighted area, burghal, business district, central city, citified, city, city center, civic, core, ghetto, greenbelt, inner city, interurban, metropolitan, midtown, municipal, oppidan, outskirts, red-light district, residential district, run-down neighborhood, shopping center, skid road, skid row, slum, slums, suburban, suburbia, suburbs, tenderloin, tenement district, town, uptown, urban, urban blight, village
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