Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun inner_city

1 sense of inner city

Sense 1
inner city -- (the older and more populated and (usually) poorer central section of a city)
       => center, centre, middle, heart, eye -- (an area that is approximately central within some larger region; "it is in the center of town"; "they ran forward into the heart of the struggle"; "they were in the eye of the storm")