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downtown

adjectifadverbenomcourant dans les dialogues

  • États-Unis//ˈdaʊ̯nˌtaʊ̯n//
  • États-Unis/[ˈdaʊ̯nˌtʰaʊ̯n]/
  • //ˈdæʊ̯nˌtæʊ̯n//
  • /[ˈdæʊ̯nˌtʰæʊ̯n]/

Of, relating to, or situated in the central business district.

adjectif

  1. 1

    Of, relating to, or situated in the central business district.

    John walked every day to his downtown job.

    “Human flesh got stuck to me,” he recalls now, as we sit in the ambulance control centre in downtown Karachi.

    The famed Farmers & Crafts Market on Main Street in downtown Las Cruces is a lively gathering of regional farmers, bakers, makers, jewelers, artists, food trucks and street musicians.

Étymologie

From down + town.

adverbe

  1. 1

    In or towards the central business district.

    You need to go downtown four blocks.

    A storekeeper downtown was shot dead last evening.

    When you're alone and life is making you lonely / You can always go downtown

  2. 2

    Outside the three-point line, or generally far from the basket.

    That shot came from way downtown!

nom

  1. 1

    The main business part of a city or town, usually located at or near its center.

  2. 2

    argotThe human genitalia.

  3. 3

    argotHeroin.

Formes

pluriel
downtowns
comparatif
further downtown, farther downtown, more downtown
superlatif
furthest downtown, farthest downtown, most downtown
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).