City
City noun - A thickly settled, highly populated area.
Large town and city are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Large town" instead a noun "City".
Large town
City and large town are semantically related. You can use "City" instead a noun phrase "Large town".
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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Now make the skyscraper cover the ground area of a small city or a large town and realize that the decks number in the triple digits.
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It's not uncommon to see someone open one of these in a large town or small city that really can't support it.
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In Dungeons & Dragons, magically enchanted Flaming Arrows are inexpensive enough to be available for purchase in bulk in the average large town or small city, assuming you don't just buy a Flaming Bow, which bestows the Flaming quality on any arrows it fires.
Source: Arrows on Fire
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Large town and City. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 28, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/city/large_town
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