citywide

UK/ˈsɪt.iˌwaɪd/US/ˈsɪt.iˌwaɪd/

adjectiveB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,611 of 15,258leans written

Citywide means reaching every part of a city. A citywide campaign, citywide restrictions, citywide coverage.

It is administrative language and belongs to councils, police forces and utilities. The trouble with it is that a city's official boundary rarely matches the built-up area, so citywide often means less than it sounds and never quite matches what people mean by the city.

Definitions of citywide

1adjectivecitywideReaching every part of a city.B2+
“After the storm, there was a citywide power cut that lasted all night.”

citywide is a scope.

Where it comes from

Middle English
cite
English
city
English, today
citywide

Built from

cīvis · Latin — fellow-citizen

From city + -wide. city comes from Middle English cite. Middle English cite, Old French citet, Latin civitas (“city”), in la-cla - "citizenry", derived from cīvis (“fellow-citizen”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ḱey- (“lie down; settle”). Cognate with Old English hīwan (“members of one's household, servants”). See hewe. a doublet of civitas. Mostly displaced native burg, whence Modern English borough.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

citywide in the wild

The court system consists of two citywide courts and three statewide courts.
Government of New York City
Twelve of these votes were held by the three citywide officials, and the five borough presidents were allotted two votes each.
New York City Board of Estimate
Paul Robeson High School for Human Services is a district-run high school in Philadelphia with citywide admissions.
Paul Robeson High School for Human Services
The Democrats also kept fourteen of seventeen city council seats, losing one district seat while gaining another, and kept control of the other citywide offices.
1955 Philadelphia municipal election
The election represented a further consolidation of control by the Democrats after their citywide victories of four years earlier.
1955 Philadelphia municipal election

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Related words

the cīvis family

city

citywide — used about once every 6,806 pages · #10,611 · point at the bar for the others

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