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Kipal Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
describing the heart of something
Hi,
Could you please help in the following description?
I want to describe something that is the heart of something, the best part of something.
Specifically, I want a word that describes the best city of a country, the place that the rest of the country revolves around.
This is my attempt.
Sicily is the treasure of Italy.
Another attempt:
Sicily is the heart of Italy. (I don't want it to have connotations of being the middle of the country)
Thank you
Could you please help in the following description?
I want to describe something that is the heart of something, the best part of something.
Specifically, I want a word that describes the best city of a country, the place that the rest of the country revolves around.
This is my attempt.
Sicily is the treasure of Italy.
Another attempt:
Sicily is the heart of Italy. (I don't want it to have connotations of being the middle of the country)
Thank you
Top answer
Welcome to the forum! While both of those sound great, the true intent may not be immediately obvious to the listener. I don't necessarily have any better suggestions, but I thought of: "cultural center" and "cultural capital".
- Welcome to the forum!
- While both of those sound great, the true intent may not be immediately obvious to the listener.
- I don't necessarily have any better suggestions, but I thought of: "cultural center" and "cultural capital".
- ) A little more esoteric could be "All roads lead to Sicily", a metaphoric reference to ancient Rome being the center of the western world at the time.
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Welcome to the forum!
While both of those sound great, the true intent may not be immediately obvious to the listener.
I don't necessarily have any better suggestions, but I thought of: "cultural center" and "cultural capital". (You can replace "cultural" with a word closest to the meaning you're looking for.)
A little more esoteric could be "All roads lead to Sicily", a
While both of those sound great, the true intent may not be immediately obvious to the listener.
I don't necessarily have any better suggestions, but I thought of: "cultural center" and "cultural capital". (You can replace "cultural" with a word closest to the meaning you're looking for.)
A little more esoteric could be "All roads lead to Sicily", a
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