downtown
noun
- center of town
adjective
- in or related to town center
adverb
- towards city center
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈdaʊ̯nˌtaʊ̯n/ / [ˈdaʊ̯nˌtʰaʊ̯n] / /ˈdæʊ̯nˌtæʊ̯n/
adj
Etymology: From down + town.
- 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.”
adv
Etymology: From down + town.
- In or towards the central business district.
“You need to go downtown four blocks.”
“A storekeeper downtown was shot dead last evening.”
- Outside the three-point line, or generally far from the basket.
“That shot came from way downtown!”
noun
Etymology: From down + town.
- The main business part of a city or town, usually located at or near its center.
- The human genitalia.
- Heroin.