单词 | city-like |
释义 | > as lemmasˈcity-like ˈcity-like adj. resembling or characteristic of a city or city dwellers; having an urban character or quality. ΚΠ 1598 I. D. tr. L. Le Roy Aristotles Politiques ii. ix. 128 Where the City is not small, it is more Citie-like and Commonweale like, and more agreeable to the people to communicate the Magistrateships to many. 1644 R. Culmer Cathedrall Newes Canterbvry 24 The huge Citie-like gates of that Cathedrall Corporation are all taken down & laid aside. 1757 C. Lennox tr. L. A. de la Beaumelle Mem. for Hist. Madame Maintenon II. vi. x. 130 She was never able to cure him of those city-like airs of magnificence. 1882 Cent. Mag. Mar. 666/2 Long after the new settlement on the banks of the Delaware had begun to look quite citylike, the country around the Schuylkill remained wild and uncleared. 1991 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 25 Nov. b2 With the arrival of Fortune's floodlights, the wilderness park is overshone by a murky, city-like haze. 2012 T. Hoekstra Miles to run before we Sleep 70 We live in an area that is right on the western edge of the city of Chicago and is much more city-like than suburb-like. < as lemmas |
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