City Vocabulary

the big smoke –  a large town or city

Sentence – He was a young lad of 16 when he first came to the big smoke.

boom town – a town or city that suddenly becomes successful because there is a lot of new business activity.

Sentence – Hopefully, some of the more level-headed members of the council can prevail and make the Boom Town fiasco a bust.

the bright lights – a big city where you can have an exciting life and be successful.

Sentence – For many young people, the bright lights of London beckon, though a lot of them end up sleeping on the streets.

capital – the city where a country or region has its government.

Sentence – They marched 20 miles to reach the capital.

city – a large important town.

Sentence – The city won its liberty in the sixteenth century.

city-state – a city that in the past joined with the area around it to form an independent state.

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conurbation – a large city area that develops when towns that are close to each other get bigger and join together.

Sentence – The new pattern shunned the old industrial areas and the conurbation centres.

county town – the town in a county where its government is based.

Sentence – So, the high streets and back lanes of county town had less noise than normal days.

dormitory town – a place from which many people travel to a city to work.

Sentence – Thornbury was fast becoming a dormitory town for nearby Bristol, but there were a couple of decent pubs there.

ecotown – in England, a new town that is designed in a way that reduces people’s impact on the environment to a minimum.

Sentence – It is planned to become one of England’s first five ” eco towns “, as announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in May 2007.

garden city – a community of homes that includes many parks and public gardens.

Sentence – The content of building ecology garden city conclude building and improving greenbelt system of city.

ghost town – a town where most people have left.

Sentence – The place has been like a ghost town since they built the new bypass round it.

hill station – in southern Asia, a town in the hills where people go in order to be more comfortable when the weather is very hot.

Sentence – The hill station also offers a fine golf course and excellent accommodations – worth the long winding drive.

megalopolis – a large city, or an area that contains a lot of large cities.

Sentence – Viewed from the perspective of the urbanization process, megalopolis plays a critical role in urban system in the whole region and urban economic development.

metro – a city with a population of over one million.

Sentence – Rural Metro is driven by the profit motive, a particularly powerful incentive in an employee-owned company.

metropolis – a big city, especially considered as somewhere that is very busy and exciting.

Sentence – The metropolis also houses a host of smaller patches of urban wasteland from a few hundred square metres to several hectares.

Municipality – a town or other area that has its own local government.

Sentence – The municipality doubled the fund distribution for forestation this year.

one-horse town – a town that is small and boring.

Sentence – We live in a small town. It does not have any exciting activities to offer visitors. My children call it a one-horse town.