Lexic.us

Definition of Down town

1. Noun. The center of a city.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Down Town

Literary usage of Down town

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob August Riis (1890)
"THE down town BACK-ALLEYS. DOWN below Chatham Square, in the old Fourth Ward, where the cradle of the tenement stood, we shall find New York's Other Half at ..."

2. Recollections of a Lifetime: Or Men and Things I Have Seen: in a Series of by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1857)
"MY DEAR 0****** Ridgefield, as well as most other places, had its Up-town and Down-town — terms which have not unfrequently been the occasion of serious ..."

3. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1895)
"... sub-treasury and down-town banks. Later, in September, 1863, he commanded the steam gunboat Marblehead in the operations against Charleston, SC, ..."

4. Sunshine and shadow in New York by Matthew Hale Smith (1869)
"IN HIS DOWN-TOWN OFFICE. He attends personally to his own business. His office is a small room in his down-town store. No merchant in New York spends as ..."

5. The Digressions of V. by Elihu Vedder (1910)
"CHAPTER I " Quaint Legends of my Infancy 99 OLD DUTCH DAYS —BIRTH —DOWN-TOWN, CHAMBERS STREET — A REAL DEATH —THE DEVIL ON TWO STICKS AND THE BOLOGNA ..."

6. A Treasury of Canadian Verse: With Brief Biographical Notes by Theodore H Rand (1900)
"NIGHT IN A DOWN-TOWN STREET NOT in the eyed, expectant gloom, Where soaring peaks repose And incommunicable space Companions with the snows ; Not in the ..."

7. The New New York: A Commentary on the Place and the People by John Charles Van Dyke, Joseph Pennell (1909)
"The tradition has gone abroad that the only trading below the City Hall is trading in stocks, and that "down town" really means "Wallstreet. ..."

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