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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The usually older, central part of a city, especially when characterized by crowded neighborhoods in which low-income, often minority groups predominate.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The interior, central part of a city, as opposed to the suburbs

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the older and more populated and (usually) poorer central section of a city

Examples

  • “Sociologists and state highway officials noted an increase in makeshift shrines such as those found at car crash sites on the sides of roads, or spray-painted on the walls of inner city streets, inviting an audience from any and all passersby.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Truth About Grief

  • “The underground, Amsterdam’s new means of transport, had tunneled as far as this old and protected part of the inner city and some houses had to come down to make way for the monster eating its way through down below.”

    Death of a Hawker

  • “This morning the weather pundits had proclaimed that the storm had arrived, but it had taunted them by stalling just outside the metroplex, teasing the inner city with wild gusts and cold laughter.”

    Impossible Places

  • “We’ll cross over the great Mallmouth Bridge — its gate will be opened for us by our magical ally — and when we reach the inner city we’ll set selected parts of it afire as a distraction, using tarnblaze bombshells that each one of us will carry.”

    Conqueror's Moon

  • “He called Grijpstra and myself and three other men and told Grijpstra that he would have to go into the inner city by himself that night.”

    Tumbleweed

  • “Sylvester has taught creative writing courses for the Young Voices United Youth Program and has raised literacy awareness with poetry contests and book fairs in inner city schools.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Office girls

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