Meaning

2 senses
  1. (not comparable, usually)In or towards the central business district.

    You need to go downtown four blocks.

    A storekeeper downtown was shot dead last evening.

    in der Innenstadt, in die Innenstadt

  2. (not comparable, usually)Outside the three-point line, or generally far from the basket.

    That shot came from way downtown!

More definitions
  • toward or in the lower or central part of town

Examples

352 sentences
  1. I often go downtown on Sunday.

    У неділю я часто ходжу до центру міста. — deniko

    ruПо воскресеньям я часто иду в центр города. — odexed

    deIch fahre sonntags oft in die Stadt. — Sudajaengi

  2. Tom and Mary have gone downtown.

    Том із Мері поїхали в центр. — deniko

  3. How often does Tom go downtown?

    Як часто Том буває у центрі міста? — deniko

  4. Tom and I were downtown yesterday.

    Ми з Томом учора були в центрі. — deniko

  5. We're going downtown to eat pizza.

    Ми збираємося в центр міста поїсти піци. — ChickenKiev

Translations

3 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
in, or towards the central business district:

Origin

From down + town.

From down + town.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

further downtown/farther downtown/more downtown, furthest downtown/farthest downtown/most downtown

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

1 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • go downtown
  • to get downtown
  • to go downtown
  • like living downtown
  • get downtown from
  • get downtown
  • went downtown to
  • downtown from here
  • living downtown
  • lived in downtown
  • downtown yesterday
  • are going downtown

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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