downtown

Etymology

From down + town.

adj

1. Of, relating to, or situated in the central business district
   John walked every day to his downtown job.
   “Human flesh got stuck to me,” he recalls now, as we sit in the ambulance control centre in downtown Karachi. April 6, 2017, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in The Guardian

adv

1. In or towards the central business district.
   You need to go downtown four blocks.
   When you're alone and life is making you lonely / You can always go downtown 1964, Tony Hatch (lyrics and music), “Downtown”, performed by Petula Clark
2. (basketball) Outside the three-point line, or generally far from the basket.
   That shot came from way downtown!

noun

1. (chiefly US, Canada) The main business part of a city or town, usually located at or near its center.
2. (US, slang) The human genitalia.
3. (slang) heroin.