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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The usually older, central part of a city, especially when characterized by crowded neighborhoods in which low-income groups predominate.
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- noun The
interior , central part of acity , as opposed to thesuburbs
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- noun the older and more populated and (usually) poorer central section of a city
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