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Stadt.

city (a large settlement)

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Meaning & usage

noun/ʃtat/
  1. city (a large settlement)

    feminine
  2. town (a settlement larger than a village)

    feminine
  3. city center (a central business area of a city)

    feminine · metonymically
  4. city, town, town council, city council (a governing body of people elected to oversee management of a municipality)

    feminine · metonymically
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis Proto-Germanic *stadiz Proto-West Germanic *stadi Old High German stat Middle High German stat German Stadt From Middle High German stat, from Old High German stat, from Proto-West Germanic *stadi, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz, from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis. Cognate with English stead. Doublet of Statt and Stätte.

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