different between city vs bordeaux

English

Alternative forms

• cyte (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English city, citie, citee, cite, from Old French cité, from Latin c?vit?s (“citizenry; community; a city with its hinterland”), from c?vis (“native; townsman; citizen”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ey- (“to lie down, settle; home, family; love; beloved”).

Cognate with Old English h?wan pl (“members of one's household, servants”). See hewe. Doublet of civitas.

Displaced native Middle English burgh, borough (“fortified town; incorporated city”) and sted, stede (“place, stead; city”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?ti/
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /s?t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s??i/
• Rhymes: -?ti
• Hyphenation: ci?ty

Noun

city (plural cities)

1. A large settlement, bigger than a town; sometimes with a specific legal definition, depending on the place.

   • So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
2. (Britain) A settlement granted special status by royal charter or letters patent; traditionally, a settlement with a cathedral regardless of size.
   • 1976, Cornelius P. Darcy, The Encouragement of the Fine Arts in Lancashire, 1760-1860, Manchester University Press (?ISBN), page 20

     Manchester, incorporated in 1838, was made the centre of a bishopric in 1847 and became a city in 1853. Liverpool was transformed into a city by Royal Charter when the new diocese of Liverpool was created in 1880.

   • 2014, Graham Rutt, Cycling Britain's Cathedrals Volume 1, Lulu.com (?ISBN), page 307

     St Davids itself is the smallest city in Great Britain, with a population of less than 2,000.

3. (Australia) The central business district; downtown.

4. (slang) A large amount of something (used after the noun).

   It's video game city in here!

Hypernyms

• settlement

Derived terms

Pages starting with “city”.

Related terms

• civic
• civil

Descendants

• ? French: City
• ? German: City
• ? Italian: city
• ? Swedish: city

Translations

See also

• metropolis
• megalopolis
• megacity
• multicity

Further reading

• "city" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 55.

Anagrams

• ICTY

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?s?t?]

Noun

city

1. nominative/accusative/vocative/instrumental plural of cit

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English city. Doublet of città.

Noun

city f (invariable)

1. city (financial district of a city)

Derived terms

• city bike
• city car
• city manager

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English city.

Pronunciation

Noun

city n

1. inner city, the commercial centre of a medium-sized or larger city

   Lite närmare city, i närheten av konstmuseet, ligger Norrköpings mest attraktiva lägenheter.

   A little closer to the town centre, next to the art museum, you'll find Norrköping's most attractive apartments.

   Det finns mycket att förbättra i vårt city.

   There are many things that need improvement in our inner city.

Usage notes

• centrum is used for the commercial centre of suburbs and small or medium-sized towns.

Synonyms

• centrum
• innerstad

English

Noun

bordeaux (countable and uncountable, plural bordeaux or bordeauxes or bordeauxs)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Bordeaux (“fungicide; wine”)
   • 1908, Annual Report of the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station, Burlington:

     Twelve fungicides; bordeaux mixture, strong, weak and with soap, bordeaux powder, modified eau celeste and ammoniacal copper carbonate, alone and with soap. As between the stronger and weaker bordeauxs an intermediate was [considered].

   • 1909, Reports of the Board of Trustees of the University of New Hampshire, volume 4, page 388:

     The bordeauxs seem to have been the most efficient fungicides, with the proprietary lime-sulfur mixtures a close second.

   • 1961, John Roberts McGrew, George Willis Still, Control of Grape Diseases and Insects in the Eastern United States:

     If these commercial materials are used to make a bordeaux or a copper-lime mixture for grape sprays, [...]

   • 2006, Gene W. Heck, Charlemagne, Muhammad, and the Arab Roots of Capitalism:

     For under Charlemagne, in particular, this industry greatly expanded, as the wine masters of Gaul began to produce their own high quality burgandies and bordeauxes in the very regions in which those modern wines now derive their names.

Danish

Etymology

From French Bordeaux (“a city and wine region in southwest France”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?rdo/, [b???d?o]

Noun

bordeaux c (singular definite bordeauxen or bordeaux'en, plural indefinite bordeauxer or bordeaux'er)

1. claret (color)
   1. (as an adjective) claret (of a deep purplish-red colour)
2. Bordeaux (wine)

Inflection

Synonyms

• (as an adjective): bordeauxfarvet, bordeauxrød, vinrød
• (wine): bordeauxvin

See also

• bordeaux on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• (reds) rød; blegrosa, blegrød, blodrød, bordeaux, bordeauxrød, cerise, ceriserød, cinnober, cinnoberrød, dybrød, gammelrosa, højrød, ildrød, karmin, karminrød, karmoisinrød, kirsebærrød, knaldrød, kobberrød, kochenille, kraprød, lakrød, lyserød, mørkerød, pink, postkasserød, purpur, purpurrød, rosenrød, rosa, rubinrød, ræverød, rødgrå, rødgul, rødgylden, rødlilla, rødorange, rødviolet, sartrosa, skarlagen, skarlagenrød, teglstensrød, vinrød ^{(Category: da:Reds)}

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French Bordeaux (“a city and wine region in southwest France”), bordeaux.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?r?do?/
• Hyphenation: bor?deaux

Noun

bordeaux m (plural bordeauxs)

1. Bordeaux (SW French wine)

   Synonym: bordeauxwijn

2. claret (color)

   Synonyms: bordeauxkleur, bordeauxrood, wijnrood

3. (Suriname, slang, uncountable) a Dutch passport, Dutch citizenship; a Dutch citizen
4. certain maroon dyes
5. that red-brownish colour

Adjective

bordeaux (invariable, comparative meer bordeaux, superlative meest bordeaux)

1. having the deep purplish-red colour of claret wine

Synonyms

• bordeauxkleurig
• bordeauxrood
• wijnrood

Finnish

Etymology

From French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bordo?/, [?bo?rdo??]

Noun

bordeaux

1. Bordeaux (wine)

Declension

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

bordeaux (invariable)

1. claret (colour)

Noun

bordeaux m (uncountable)

1. Bordeaux (wine)

Noun

bordeaux m

1. plural of bordeau

Italian

Adjective

bordeaux (invariable)

1. burgundy, maroon (colour)

Noun

bordeaux m (invariable)

1. burgundy, maroon (colour)
2. Bordeaux (wine)
3. (organic chemistry) Any of several azo dyes having this colour