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This uncle proposed that Nat should come and stay with him a few months in the new "city of spindles" (for the city was then only about four years old), a sort of baby-city.

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  1. noun A center of population, commerce, and culture; a town of significant size and importance.
  2. noun An incorporated municipality in the United States with definite boundaries and legal powers set forth in a charter granted by the state.
  3. noun A Canadian municipality of high rank, usually determined by population but varying by province.
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  • At the center of the city was a great plaza, at least two-city blocks square. —  Carr, John F, Kalvan Kingmaker (v1.0) (html).html
  • “The night was clear and bright” (says Napier); “the French camp was silent and watchful; but the noise of tumult was heard from every quarter of the city, as if some mighty beast was struggling and howling in the toils.” At midnight the city was again summoned; and the answer being still defiance, the batteries began to open. —  The History of Napoleon Buonaparte
  • As part of the general development agreement Berkeley Investments has with the city, the developer has to secure leases for at least 135,000 square feet of commercial space before the city is able to release $25 million in public money for the demolition of the mall and infrastructure work on the site.
  • Being purchased for the city is a 750 gallon pumper and for the county will be a 500 gallon pumper. —  Lahontan Valley News - Top Stories
  • Rusk City Secretary Fran Wendeborn told council members during the regular February council meeting if the city is able to cancel its election because no candidate has any opposition, the Cherokee County Clerk's office would hold the wet-dry election for the city.
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  1. Middle English cite, from Old French, from Latin cīvitās, from cīvis, citizen; see kei-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English citie; from Middle English cite, citee, from Old French cite, citet, citeit, French cité = Provencal ciu, ciutat, cieutat, ciptat = Catalan ciutat = Spanish ciudad = Portuguese cidade = Italian cittate, cittade, now città (also in place-names cività) = Walloon cetate = Albanian kjoutet, kjoutete, from Latin cīvita(t-)s, the condition of a citizen, the body of citizens, the state, later a city, from cīvis, Old Latin ccivis, a citizen, prob. akin to Anglo-Saxon hīw, family (see hind), perhaps connected with quies (later English quiet), rest, and with Greek κείσθαι, lie down, rest, Sanskrit√çī, lie down: see quiet and cemetery. Hence (from Latin cīvita(t-)s) ult. English citadel, and (from cīvis) civic, civil, civility, civilize, etc.
 

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