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primate city

noun

Etymology

From primate + city, coined in 1939 by Mark Jefferson.

  1. derived from *ḱey-✻ — “lie down; settle”
  2. derived from civitas
  3. derived from citet
  4. inherited from cite
  5. compounded as primate city — “primate + city”

Definitions

  1. A city in a geographic region that is much more populous than any other cities in that…

    A city in a geographic region that is much more populous than any other cities in that region.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for primate city. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA