Assertion: downtown | /r/HasProperty | established as proper term
Facets:
value: by the early 1900s
type: TEMPORAL
value: clearly
type: MANNER
value: in american english
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: But by the early 1900s, "downtown" was clearly established as the proper term in American English for a city's central business district, although the word was virtually unknown in Britain and Western Europe, where expressions such as "city center", "el centro" (Spanish), "das Zentrum" (German), etc are used.