Word Study
downtown
OXFORD DICTIONARY
downtown, adj., n., & adv. US
--adj. of or in the lower or more central part, or the business part, of a town or city.
--n. a downtown area.
--adv. in or into a downtown area.
--adj. of or in the lower or more central part, or the business part, of a town or city.
--n. a downtown area.
--adv. in or into a downtown area.
THESAURUS
downtown
Bowery, Chinatown, East End, East Side, Little Hungary, Little Italy, West End, West Side, barrio, black ghetto, blighted area, burghal, business district, central city, citified, city, city center, civic, core, ghetto, greenbelt, inner city, interurban, metropolitan, midtown, municipal, oppidan, outskirts, red-light district, residential district, run-down neighborhood, shopping center, skid road, skid row, slum, slums, suburban, suburbia, suburbs, tenderloin, tenement district, town, uptown, urban, urban blight, villageFor further exploring for "downtown" in Webster Dictionary Online