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cities

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1. citiesnoun

   Plural form of city.

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1. cities

   A city is a human settlement of notable size. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city-dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, but following two centuries of unprecedented and rapid urbanization, more than half of the world population now lives in cities, which has had profound consequences for global sustainability. Present-day cities usually form the core of larger metropolitan areas and urban areas—creating numerous commuters traveling towards city centres for employment, entertainment, and education. However, in a world of intensifying globalization, all cities are to varying degrees also connected globally beyond these regions. This increased influence means that cities also have significant influences on global issues, such as sustainable development, global warming, and global health. Because of these major influences on global issues, the international community has prioritized investment in sustainable cities through Sustainable Development Goal 11. Due to the efficiency of transportation and the smaller land consumption, dense cities hold the potential to have a smaller ecological footprint per inhabitant than more sparsely populated areas. Therefore, compact cities are often referred to as a crucial element of fighting climate change. However, this concentration can also have significant negative consequences, such as forming urban heat islands, concentrating pollution, and stressing water supplies and other resources. Other important traits of cities besides population include the capital status and relative continued occupation of the city. For example, country capitals such as Beijing, London, Mexico City, Moscow, Nairobi, New Delhi, Paris, Rome, Athens, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo, Manila, and Washington, D.C. reflect the identity and apex of their respective nations. Some historic capitals, such as Kyoto and Xi'an, maintain their reflection of cultural identity even without modern capital status. Religious holy sites offer another example of capital status within a religion, Jerusalem, Mecca, Varanasi, Ayodhya, Haridwar and Prayagraj each hold significance.

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1. Cities

   of City

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1. Cities

   Cities is the third studio album by American alternative rock band Anberlin, released on February 20, 2007. The songs "Godspeed" and "The Unwinding Cable Car" were released as singles with accompanying music videos. The album debuted at #19 on the Billboard 200.

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1. Cities

   A large or important municipality of a country, usually a major metropolitan center.

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1. citiesnoun

   Plural noun of the word city.

   The intercity bus ran between the two cities frequently every day.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 29, 2020  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'cities' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2326

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'cities' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3983

Anagrams for cities »

1. iciest

How to pronounce cities?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of cities in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of cities in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of cities in a Sentence

1. Johann von Goethe:

   The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

2. Italo Calvino:

   The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

3. Cai Zhiquan:

   We'll be flying from major hubs in China to second- or third-tier cities overseas, at the same time, we'll also open up more routes from inland Chinese cities to major hub cities elsewhere.

4. Amit Ray:

   Smart cities are the cities of positivity and happy-energy, not the junkyards of technologies but cities of diversity, love, life, beauty, dignity, freedom, tolerance, and equality.

5. Peter King:

   Cities can actually make the case, ‘We want to make our cities resilient to protect your assets, and you can pay for it,’ i think the challenge is then for the cities to make the private sector realize that (spending to protect) these public goods, in terms of climate resilience, is good for them in terms of protecting their own assets.

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