city

Other forms of city

plural

cities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about city

What does city mean?

city means "a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in city?

city has 2 syllables: cit-y. The stress falls on "cit". In IPA it is /ˈsɪti/.

What is another word for city?

Close synonyms include metropolis, urban center, metropolis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is city a common word?

city is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.