city limits

1. 1.

   the limits of the area occupied by a city or town

   Synonymscity limit

   Broaderlimit

   Part ofcitytown

Questions about city limits

What does city limits mean?

city limits means "the limits of the area occupied by a city or town".

What is another word for city limits?

Close synonyms include city limit. 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 limits a common word?

city limits is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.