Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

closed city

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.82 in modern English

Syllables: closed c-i-ty
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of several settlements, especially in the Soviet Union (historically) or Russia (today), that have travel and residency restrictions, typically because they house sensitive nuclear or defense facilities.

Example Sentences

"[A] man with a gravelly, slow-talking, New Mexico drawl, Glassmire had built a career as a respected scientist who had worked as an engineer for Los Alamos National Laboratory in the mid-fifties, when Los Alamos was still a closed city."

Inflected Forms

closed cities (plural)

Antonyms

open city

Questions

What does closed city mean?: Any of several settlements, especially in the Soviet Union (historically) or Russia (today), that have travel and residency restrictions, typically because they house sensitive nuclear or defense facilities.

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