Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective having the customs or manners or dress of city people.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective resembling a city
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Examples
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Scotty led them like a tourist guide, pointing a hand around the raised plateau that surrounded the city-like interior of the Hera, pausing as his finger angled toward the various rock outcroppings that were growing up around the structural spars, and encrusted the bases of the ground-level walls.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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Scotty led them like a tourist guide, pointing a hand around the raised plateau that surrounded the city-like interior of the Hera, pausing as his finger angled toward the various rock outcroppings that were growing up around the structural spars, and encrusted the bases of the ground-level walls.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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Indeed they claim to be able to make out a pyramid and other city-like structures from the satellite photos.
Archaeologists Claim They've Found Lost City Of Atlantis (VIDEO) 2010
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Indeed they claim to be able to make out a pyramid and other city-like structures from the satellite photos.
Archaeologists Claim They've Found Lost City Of Atlantis (VIDEO) 2010
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The Census Bureau will begin delivering letters to homes in rural areas or that lack "city-like" addresses Monday.
U.S. Faces Uphill Battle to Promote Census Jean Spencer 2010
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The landscape is strange, although with no geographical features except the frozen sea that separates the north end of Rama from the southern end and city-like structures are seen and named (Paris, New York).
Archive 2007-12-01 Mark 2007
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The first one in Central Asia was in Baghdad, but it is now being followed by equally city-like walled-in fortresses in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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The landscape is strange, although with no geographical features except the frozen sea that separates the north end of Rama from the southern end and city-like structures are seen and named (Paris, New York).
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke Mark 2007
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Residents interviewed said the U.S. barriers were creating city-like prisons.
Rep. John Murtha: "Mission Accomplished" - Five Years Later 2008
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The other pics are of the granjas and of the city-like part of town.
My Town Karen 2006
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