city of bridges

1. 1.

   a city in northwestern Belgium that is connected by canal to the North Sea; in the 13th century it was a leading member of the Hanseatic League; the old city (known as the City of Bridges) is a popular tourist attraction

   SynonymsBruges

   Broadercity

   Part ofBelgiumHanseatic League

Questions about city of bridges

What does city of bridges mean?

city of bridges means "a city in northwestern Belgium that is connected by canal to the North Sea; in the 13th century it was a leading member of the Hanseatic League; the old city (known as the City of Bridges) is a popular tourist attraction".

What is another word for city of bridges?

Close synonyms include Bruges. 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 of bridges a common word?

city of bridges 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.