inner-city
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.47 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, pertaining to, or situated in the central part of a city, especially an older, populous area of low-income or immigrant families.
Example Sentences
- "Four years later, when the site of cultural panic had shifted from the threat of inner-city black youth to the moral decay and deviant behavior of relatively privileged, middle-class white youth, Kids was released."
- "[...] 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."