"inner city" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: inner cities [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} inner city (plural inner cities)
  1. (urban studies) The parts of a large city closer to its core, especially older, populous areas of low-income or immigrant families as opposed to centrally located commercial areas. Categories (topical): Urban studies Categories (place): Places Related terms: ghetto, intercity (english: homophonous or nearly so in some accents), urban Translations (central part of a city): centrum [neuter] (Danish), bymidte [common-gender] (Danish), indre by (english: when referring to Copenhagen) [common-gender] (Danish), midtby (english: when referring to Aarhus) [common-gender] (Danish), binnenstad [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), stadskern [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), kantakaupunki (Finnish), keskusta (Finnish), Innenstadt [feminine] (German), Stadtmitte [feminine] (German), άστυ (ásty) [neuter] (Greek), miðbær (note: of a town) [masculine] (Icelandic), miðborg (note: of a city) [feminine] (Icelandic), sentrum [neuter] (Norwegian), intramuros (Portuguese), centrum (Swedish), city [common-gender] (Swedish), innerstad [common-gender] (Swedish), اَنْدرُون شَہَر (andrūn śahar) [masculine] (Urdu)

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "central part of a city",
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      "sense": "central part of a city",
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      "sense": "central part of a city",
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      "sense": "central part of a city",
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      "sense": "central part of a city",
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      "sense": "central part of a city",
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      "sense": "central part of a city",
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      "sense": "central part of a city",
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      "sense": "central part of a city",
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "central part of a city",
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      "roman": "andrūn śahar",
      "sense": "central part of a city",
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      "word": "اَنْدرُون شَہَر"
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