down town

1. 1.

   the center of a city

   Synonymscivic centermunicipal center

   Broaderhub

   Part ofcity

Questions about down town

What does down town mean?

down town means "the center of a city".

What is another word for down town?

Close synonyms include civic center, municipal center. 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 down town a common word?

down town is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.