THE CITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does the City mean? 

• THE CITY (noun)
  The noun THE CITY has 2 senses:

1. the part of London situated within the ancient boundaries; the commercial and financial center of London

2. used to allude to the securities industry of Great Britain

  Familiarity information: THE CITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THE CITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The part of London situated within the ancient boundaries; the commercial and financial center of London

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

City of London; the City

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("the City" is a part of...):

British capital; capital of the United Kingdom; Greater London; London (the capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Used to allude to the securities industry of Great Britain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("the City" is a kind of...):

market; securities industry (the securities markets in the aggregate)

 Context examples 

They are all locked on, for Oz so ordered it when the City was first built, and I have the only key that will unlock them.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

My dear wife knew that I had business in the City.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He forgot about it as he would have forgotten the Central Bank Building or the City Hall after having walked past them.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The car had been to him no more than a room in a house, and when he had entered it the city had been all around him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

We had come, through Temple Bar, into the city.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The city is an exact square, each side of the wall being five hundred feet long.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

This makes it the second most consumed food in the city during that season.

(Açaí fruit can transmit Chagas disease, SciDev.Net)

But he goes into the city two or three times a week.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I remember hearing it talked of in the City.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

According to FIOCRUZ, the article demonstrates that the virus can be transmitted through the Culex mosquito across the city.

(Brazil scientists find out Culex mosquito can transmit Zika, Agência Brasil)