单词 | out-city |
释义 | out-cityadj. Situated outside a city; suburban. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [adjective] > suburbs suburbedc1450 suburban1583 suburbian1606 suburbicary1655 suburbican1659 peri-urban1935 out-city1939 1939 J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath xiii. 118 Then the buildings grew smaller... The wrecking yards and hot-dog stands, the out-city dance halls. 1963 Economist 9 Nov. 571/1 Those [rents] to be paid in out-city areas. 1968 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 55 390 Political and social strife over police issues between out-city reformers and city leaders. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmasout-city out-city n. Brit. /ˈaʊtˌsɪti/ , U.S. /ˈaʊtˌsɪdi/ ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > city > [noun] > other types of city kine-burghc1225 City of Goda1382 city of refuge (alsorefute)a1425 mother city?a1425 imperial city1550 city dwelling1613 second city1621 out-city1642 garden town1835 hoard-burg1895 garden city1898 cathedral city1902 parasitopolis1927 twin city1973 arcology1985 sustainable city1986 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 842 The out-cities of Egypt. 1990 Nation (Nexis) 17 Sept. 280 Its car-based ‘edge cities,’—or, more recently and accurately, ‘outcities,’ in the words of Architecture magazine—denied any semblance of urbanity or community in their form, if not their nomenclature. < adj.1939 as lemmas |
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