INNER CITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inner city mean? 

• INNER CITY (noun)
  The noun INNER CITY has 1 sense:

1. the older and more populated and (usually) poorer central section of a city

  Familiarity information: INNER CITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INNER CITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The older and more populated and (usually) poorer central section of a city

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("inner city" is a kind of...):

center; centre; eye; heart; middle (an area that is approximately central within some larger region)

Holonyms ("inner city" is a part of...):

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

 Context examples 

The Urban Environment and Childhood Asthma study aims to identify factors that contribute to asthma development in children from inner city settings, where allergies and asthma are more common and severe.

(Infant Exposure to Allergens May Help Prevent Wheezing, NIH)

“We were also noticing a heavy burden of asthma in inner city minority children. It seemed as though vitamin D deficiency and asthma were coincident and interacting in some way.”

(Vitamin D may protect against pollution-associated asthma symptoms in obese children, National Institutes of Health)

The dust was tested for 5 common inner city allergens: cat, cockroach, dog, dust mite, and mouse.

(Infant Exposure to Allergens May Help Prevent Wheezing, NIH)