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Meaning of inner-city | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

Of, pertaining to, or situated in the central part of a city, especially an older, populous area of low-income or immigrant families.

Examples

“[...] after the original Victorian station was demolished and then entombed in concrete in the 1960s, Birmingham New Street became a byword for the worst excesses of the much-loathed Brutalist architecture so widely used to reconstruct inner-city post-war Britain.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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