urban center

Questions about urban center

What does urban center mean?

urban center means "a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts".

What is another word for urban center?

Close synonyms include city, 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 urban center a common word?

urban center 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.