city of light
Glowing urban center
City of Light is a nickname for Paris, France, originally referring to the city's early adoption of gas street lighting in the 1820s and its reputation as a center of Enlightenment ideas.
The phrase evokes Paris's romantic ambiance and cultural brilliance: We spent our honeymoon in the City of Light.
- ParisFrance's chief city
- streetlampPole-mounted road illuminator
- French RevolutionLate-1700s republican upheaval
- EnlightenmentEra prioritizing reason over dogma
- RadianceEmitted light or glow
Notre-Dame · Champs-Élysées · Eiffel Tower · Arc de Triomphe · Montmartre · Louvre · Skyline · electric glow · Impressionism · golden hour · Beacon · Seine · gaslight · Versailles · café · Renaissance · romance · glittering
city of lightremote outpost
Isolated settlement far away
one-horse town · podunk · forgotten town · middle of nowhere · the sticks
city of lighthellhole
Extremely unpleasant place
Babylon · Sodom · Gotham · den of iniquity
light, city, highlight, daylight, lighting, lighter, lighted, lights, flashlight