cité
Sentences
Meaning
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- city
- citizenship
- a fortified city, city-state, or historic city centre specifically
- a municipality with city rather than town status
- housing estate
- complex of buildings or district set aside for a specific purpose; campus
Concepts
housing project
urban settlement
student’s residences
walled city
Synonyms
Frequency
Hyphenated as
ci‧te
Pronounced as (IPA)
/si.te/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited from Middle French cité, from Old French citet, from Late Latin cīvitātem (“city”).
New
citer
- to cite, quote
- to summon
- to name
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