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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of or located in the lower part of a town, or in the business center; "downtown Manhattan"; "delinquents roaming the downtown streets" [ant: uptown] n
1: the central area or commercial center of a town or city; "the heart of Birmingham's downtown" [syn: business district, downtown] adv
1: toward or in the lower or central part of town [ant: uptown]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Date: 1836 1. of, relating to, or located in the lower part or business center of a city 2. hip, trendy <downtown music> • downtown adverb II. noun Date: 1845 the lower part of a city; especially the main business district • downtowner noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Downtown places are in or towards the centre of a large town or city, where the shops and places of business are. (mainly AM) ...an office in downtown Chicago. ? uptown ADJ: ADJ n • Downtown is also an adverb. By day he worked downtown for American Standard... ? uptown ADV: ADV after v, be ADV • Downtown is also a noun. ...in a large vacant area of the downtown. N-UNCOUNT: oft the N

Moby Thesaurus

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, village