'downtown' definitions:
Definition of 'downtown'
(from WordNet)
adverb
Toward or in the lower or central part of town [ant: uptown]
adjective
Of or located in the lower part of a town, or in the business center; "downtown Manhattan"; "delinquents roaming the downtown streets" [ant: uptown]
noun
The central area or commercial center of a town or city; "the heart of Birmingham's downtown" [syn: business district, downtown]
Synonyms of 'downtown'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- barrio,
- black ghetto,
- blighted area,
- Bowery,
- burghal,
- business district,
- central city,
- Chinatown,
- citified,
- city,
- city center,
- civic,
- core,
- East End,
- East Side,
- ghetto,
- greenbelt,
- inner city,
- interurban,
- Little Hungary,
- Little Italy,
- metropolitan,
- midtown,
- municipal,
- oppidan,
- outskirts,
- red-light district,
- residential district,
- run-down neighborhood,
- shopping center,
- skid road,
- skid row,
- slum,
- slums,
- suburban,
- suburbia,
- suburbs,
- tenderloin,
- tenement district,
- town,
- uptown,
- urban,
- urban blight,
- village,
- West End,
- West Side