eternal city

Questions about eternal city

What does eternal city mean?

eternal city means "capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire".

What is another word for eternal city?

Close synonyms include Rome, Roma, Italian capital, capital of Italy. 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 eternal city a common word?

eternal city 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.