CITY LIFE

1. boarded up shops: shops that are no longer doing business

2. chain stores: well-known brands with shops in multiple cities

3. to close down: to stop doing business

4. fashionable boutiques: fashionable clothes shops

5. to get around: to travel around

6. high-rise flats: multi-story apartments

7. inner-city: the central part of a city where people live and where conditions are often

poor

8. in the suburbs: the outer area of large towns and cities where people live

9. lively bars/restaurants: bars or restaurants with a good atmosphere

10. local facilities: local buildings or services serving the public

11. multi-story car parks: car parks on several floors

12. office block: a large building that contains offices

13. out of town shopping centre/retail park: large shopping centres outside of the town or

city

14. pavement cafe: cafes with tables outside on the pavement

15. places of interest: buildings that have a particular interest for visitors

16. poor housing: housing that is not in good condition

17. public spaces: areas in a town or city that are open to the public

18. public transport system: public vehicles such as buses and trains that operate at regular

times on fixed routes

19. residential area: an area where people live

20. run down: old and of a poor standard

21. shopping centre: an area consisting of multiple shops

22. shopping malls: large indoor shopping centres

23. sprawling city: a city that has grown over time and which covers a wide area

24. tourist attraction: a place of interest to tourists

25. traffic congestion: heavy traffic making it difficult to move around a town or city

26. up market shops: expensive fashionable shops

27. the big smoke: informal a large town or city

28. boom town a town or city that suddenly becomes successful because there is a lot of new

business activity

29. capital the city where a country or region has its government

30. city a large important town

31. city the people who live in a city

32. city a European town that has a cathedral

33. city-state a city that in the past joined with the area around it to form an independent

state
34. conurbation a large city area that develops when towns that are close to each other get

bigger and join together

35. county town British the town in a county where its government is based

36. dormitory town British a place from which many people travel to a city to work

37. dorp South African a village or small town

38. ecotown in England, a new town that is designed in a way that reduces people's impact

on the environment to a minimum

39. garden city a community of homes that includes many parks and public gardens

40. ghost town a town where most people have left

41. hamlet a small village

42. hill station in southern Asia, a town in the hills where people go in order to be more

comfortable when the weather is very hot

43. kampong a village in Malaysia

44. kraal South African a traditional African village

45. market town British a town where there is a market each week, usually outside

46. megalopolis a large city, or an area that contains a lot of large cities

47. metro Indian English a city with a population of over one million

48. metropolis mainly literary a big city, especially considered as somewhere that is very

busy and exciting

49. mono city a city, especially in Russia, where most of the population works in one

industry, such as making cars

50. municipality a town or other area that has its own local government

51. new town British a town that is planned and designed and is built on land where there

was not a town before

52. one-horse town informal a town that is small and boring

53. outpost a small town far away from other towns, usually where trading takes place

54. parish a small area in the countryside in England that has its own local government

55. population centre an area where a lot of people live

56. port a city where there is a port

57. pueblo a small town, especially in parts of the US that are near Mexico

58. satellite a town or city that is close to and depends on a larger city

59. seaport a town by the sea with a large port

60. sister city American a twin town

61. the Smoke British informal London, or any other large city

62. town a place where people live and work that is larger than a village but smaller than a

city

63. town the people who live in a town

64. town the local government of a town

65. township the part of a town or city in South Africa where black people had to live

because of apartheid

66. township an area within a county (=a division of a state) in the US or Canada that is

responsible for running its own public services

67. twin town British a town that has established a formal connection with another town in a

different country to encourage visits and exchange information. The American word is

sister city.

68. village a very small town in the countryside

69. village in a village, or relating to a village

70. the bright lights a big city where you can have an exciting life and be successful

71. town and gown the people who live in a town and the people who belong to the

university in that town, used especially when talking about the differences between the

two groups