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noun

City n. (pl. cities)

A large town.

A corporate town; in the United States, a town or collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or a city council consisting of a board of aldermen and a common council; in Great Britain, a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a bishop, or the capital of his see. "A city is a town incorporated; which is, or has been, the see of a bishop; and though the bishopric has been dissolved, as at Westminster, it yet remaineth a city." "When Gorges constituted York a city, he of course meant it to be the seat of a bishop, for the word city has no other meaning in English law."

The collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city. "What is the city but the people?"

Synonyms: See Village.

adjective

City adj. Of or pertaining to a city.

City council. See under Council.

City court, The municipal court of a city. (U. S.)

City ward, a watchman, or the collective watchmen, of a city. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'City'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"City" Quotes from Famous Books

... conducted at Bayonne, and an interview was subsequently agreed on between the kings of France and Castile, to be held near that city, on the banks of the Bidassoa, which divides the dominions of the respective monarchs. The contrast exhibited by the two princes at this interview, in their style of dress and equipage, was sufficiently striking to deserve notice. Louis, who was even worse ...

— History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella V1 • William H. Prescott

... King of the city that stood in this place, and his name was Mohammed, Lord of the Black Islands, which are no other than the four hills of which thou wottest. He reigned seventy years, at the end of which time God took him to Himself, and I succeeded to his throne and took to wife the daughter of my ...

— The Book Of The Thousand Nights And One Night, Volume I • Anonymous

... The colonel detached the form and blotted it. "Take a taxi-cab, see Ferguson, bring the money straight back here. Or, better still, go on to the City to the New York Guaranty and change it ...

— Jack O' Judgment • Edgar Wallace

... of the pueblo, and Nigger covered the remainder of the distance at a pace that made the night air drum in Trevison's ears. The big black slowed as he came to a section of broken country surrounding the ancient city, but he got through it quickly and skirted the sand slopes, taking the steep acclivity leading to the ledge of the pueblo in a dozen catlike leaps and coming to a halt in the shadow of an adobe house, heaving deeply, his rider flung himself out of ...

— 'Firebrand' Trevison • Charles Alden Seltzer

... can't go on. It's a disgrace. I was called to go to Detroit on an important case; it would mean two thousand dollars to me,—but I can't get out of the city." ...

— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick

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