downtowns
- 1Plural of downtown.
Urban planners studied how several downtowns recovered after the recession.
The region's downtowns share the same problem of empty storefronts.
Note
A regular plural, and one that belongs only to the noun. Downtown also works as an adjective (downtown offices) and as an adverb (we drove downtown), and neither of those ever takes the -s: you can compare several downtowns, but never "downtowns offices." In its city-center meaning the noun is a US and Canadian word, so the plural is most at home in North American usage.
downtowns is a form of downtown
downtown, noun: The district serving as a city's or town's main business area, usually in or near its geographical center. Full entry
- Forms
- downtowndowntowns plural
- Spelling
- downtown → downtowns: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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