downtown
IPA: dˈaʊntˈaʊn
noun
- (chiefly US, Canada) The main business part of a city or town, usually located at or near its center.
- (US, slang) The human genitalia.
- (slang) heroin.
adjective
- Of, relating to, or situated in the central business district
adverb
- In or towards the central business district.
- (basketball) Outside the three-point line, or generally far from the basket.
down town
IPA: dˈaʊntˈaʊn
noun
- the center of a city
Examples of "downtown" in Sentences
- The Downtown area is the cultural center of the city.
- The bus terminal, located in the downtown part in the city.
- The bus terminal is located in the downtown part in the city.
- Downtown Omaha was the location of the settlement of the city.
- The club building is located in the downtown core of the city.
- The city is in the midst of major construction in the downtown area.
- The development is part of the city's downtown revitalization efforts.
- It is one of the main roads in and out of the downtown area of the city.
- The Downtown Business District continues to revitalize the downtown area.
- Central Chennai is the commercial heart of the city and the downtown area.
- That is only a problem in downtown, which is becoming more irrelevant every day.
- M. O'BRIEN: It kind of gives new meaning to the term downtown, if you know what I mean.
- Build the darn tunnel through Seattle with NO on or off ramps in downtown is what I vote.
- And jogging for 45 min downtown, you must have made lots of laps, downtown is very small.
- A couple of years ago, I had an apartment downtown (well, what we call a downtown) with a porch on the second floor.
- And plentiful. ws: That parking garage in downtown is owned by Lake Oswego Redevelopment Agency (LORA) which is a public entity.
- “The timing could not be better, as our downtown is about to be reconnected with the rest of the county to a 17-mile uninterrupted rail trail,” he says.
- The source and I agree though that lugging luggage up from the rail/bus tunnel to a hotel in downtown is not going to be easy, and that going part way on the train and then transfering to a shuttle or taxi or whatever is not likely to happen, especially by business travelers late at night, or families traveling with car seats, strollers and screaming kids.
Examples of "down-town" in Sentences
- He seemed to be the only other person down-town that day.
- Don't you think a "Billy Goat Tavern" anchoring the northern tip of Aurora's down-town fits?
- A low cloud cover turned the upper floors of the down-town skyscrapers into ghostly apparitions.
- And as soon as the morning's work was done, I was out of the house and away down-town to get my first drink.
- On April 12 and 13, 2010, a fourteen-square-block area of down-town Washington was closed to all but official traffic.
- Brissenden never arrived without his quart of whiskey, and when they dined together down-town, he drank Scotch and soda throughout the meal.
- That's why real estate prices for single family homes in so called "urbanist" communities like Bethesda and Chevy Chase, with their sidewalks and pedestrians and down-town mainstreets where people walk are so cheap.