English > city district: 1 sense > noun 1, location| Meaning | A district of a town or city. |
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| Instances | Beacon Hill | A fashionable section of Boston |
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| Bloomsbury | A city district of central London laid out in garden squares |
| Coney Island | A section of Brooklyn on the Atlantic |
| Harlem | A district of Manhattan |
| Hell's Kitchen, Hell's Half Acre | A district in Manhattan formerly noted for its slums and vice |
| Hollywood | A district of Los Angeles long associated with the American film industry |
| Nob Hill | A fashionable neighborhood in San Francisco |
| SoHo, South of Houston | A district in southwestern Manhattan noted for its shops and restaurants and galleries and artist's lofts |
| Soho | A city district of central London now noted for restaurants and nightclubs |
| Times Square | The area of Manhattan around the intersection of Broadway and Seventh Avenue |
| Wembley | A southeastern part of Greater London that is the site of the English national soccer stadium |
| West Berlin | The part of Berlin under United States and British and French control until 1989 |
| West End | The part of west central London containing the main entertainment and shopping areas |
| off-Broadway | low-budget theaters located outside the Broadway area in Manhattan |
| Part of | city | An incorporated administrative district established by state charter / charter |
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| Narrower | Barbary Coast | A part of a city that is notorious for gambling dens and brothels and saloons and riotous night life (especially the waterfront of San Francisco after the gold rush of 1849) |
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| business district, downtown | The central area or commercial center of a town or city |
| combat zone, tenderloin | A city district known for its vice and high crime rate |
| enterprise zone | A city district where development receives special tax advantages |
| ghetto | A poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions |
| outskirt, fringe | A part of the city far removed from the center |
| precinct | A district of a city or town marked out for administrative purposes |
| quarter | A district of a city having some distinguishing character |
| red-light district | A district with many brothels |
| slum, slum area | A district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions |
| turf | The territory claimed by a juvenile gang as its own |
| waterfront | The area of a city (such as a harbor or dockyard) alongside a body of water |
| Broader | district, territory, territorial dominion, dominion | A region marked off for administrative or other purposes |
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| Spanish | barriada, barrio |
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| Catalan | barriada, barri |
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