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Downtown   /dˈaʊntˈaʊn/   Listen
Downtown

adjective
1.
Of or located in the lower part of a town, or in the business center.  "Delinquents roaming the downtown streets"
adverb
1.
Toward or in the lower or central part of town.
noun
1.
The central area or commercial center of a town or city.  Synonym: business district.





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"Downtown" Quotes from Famous Books



... a drug store in the downtown part of New York City, and, addressing the proprietor by his first ...
— Toaster's Handbook - Jokes, Stories, and Quotations • Peggy Edmund & Harold W. Williams, compilers
... The same combination of economic influences and pressure which so vastly increased the value of the Astors' land, operated to turn this quondam farm into city lots worth enormous sums. As population increased and the downtown sections were converted into business sections, the fashionables shifted their quarters from time to time, always pushing uptown, until the Goelet lands became a long ...
— History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I - Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times • Myers Gustavus
... "On the way downtown in the elevated railroad Sim done some preachin'. His text was took from the Golconda House sign, which had 'T. Dempsey, Proprietor,' ...
— The Depot Master • Joseph C. Lincoln
... was being watched. Shadowed, I believe is the technical word. I daresay I had been followed from my house, but I had not noticed. When I went out to lunch a youngish man in a dark overcoat was waiting for the elevator, and I saw him again when I came out of my house. We went downtown again on the ...
— Sight Unseen • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... and then he went downtown to attend to some matters connected with his new duties, which were much less irksome than those he had had when he had ...
— Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders - or, The Underground Search for the Idol of Gold • Victor Appleton


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