The City

Definition

city /'sÇti/ n ၁။ [C] အခ်က္အခ်ာက်ေသာ ၿမိဳ႕ႀကီး။ Which is the world's largest city? ❍ the city centre (ie the central area of a city). See also INNER CITY ၂။ [C] (က) ( Brit ) ဘုရင္ (သို႔) ဘုရင္မက အထူးအခြင့္အေရး ေပးထားေသာ၊ ဘုရားရိွခိုးေက်ာင္းႀကီး ရိွေသာ ၿမိဳ႕။ the city of York. (ခ) ( US ) ျပည္နယ္ အစိုးရက အထူးအခြင့္အေရး ေပးထားေသာၿမိဳ႕။ ၃။ [CGp] ၿမိဳ႕သူၿမိဳ႕သားအားလံုး။ The city turned out to welcome back its victorious team. ၄။ the City [sing] ( Brit ) လန္ဒန္ၿမိဳ႕၏ ေရွးအက်ဆံုးရပ္ကြက္။ (ယခုအခါ စီးပြား ေရးအခ်က္အခ်ာေနရာ ျဖစ္ေနၿပီ။ ) She works in the City (eg in the head office of a bank). ❍ a City stockbroker ❍ The City reacted sharply to the fall in oil prices. ❏ city desk n ၁။ ( Brit ) (သတင္းစာ) စီးပြားေရး သတင္းဌာန။ ၂။ ( US ) (သတင္းစာ) ၿမိဳ႕၊ ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ သတင္းဌာန။ ❏ city editor n ၁။ ( Brit ) စီးပြားေရးသတင္း အယ္ဒီတာ။ ၂။ ( US ) ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္သတင္းအယ္ဒီတာ။ ❏ city hall n [C, U] ( esp US ) ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္စည္ပင္သာယာ႐ံုး။ ျမဴနီစီပယ္႐ံုးႀကီး။ leading a march to (the) City Hall to protest at local housing conditions. ❏ city-state n (ေရွး) ၿမိဳ႕ျပႏိုင္ငံ။

Examples

1. A thriving industrial city on the Tasmanian coast
2. [major city] : New and better hotels are springing up in most of Russia’s major cities.
3. The city has agreed to pay damages to those involved.
4. City employees/officials
5. City hospital/court/legislature
6. A city that is very optimistic about the future
7. ‘What was the party like?’ ‘Dull city.’