city

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A center of population, commerce, and culture; a town of significant size and importance.
2. n. An incorporated municipality in the United States with definite boundaries and legal powers set forth in a charter granted by the state.
3. n. A Canadian municipality of high rank, usually determined by population but varying by province.
4. n. A large incorporated town in Great Britain, usually the seat of a bishop, with its title conferred by the Crown.
5. n. The inhabitants of a city considered as a group.
6. n. An ancient Greek city-state.
7. n. Slang Used in combination as an intensive: The playing field was mud city after the big rain.
8. n. The financial and commercial center of London. Used with the.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A large and important town; any large town holding an important position in the state in which it is situated. In the United States a city is properly an incorporated municipality, usually governed by a mayor, aldermen, and common council. The number of inhabitants required to constitute a city is commonly over 10,000; but it differs greatly in different States, some (especially in the west) having incorporated cities of fewer than 3,000 inhabitants. In Great Britain the term is applied in a narrower sense to a town corporate which is or has been the seat of a bishop and of a cathedral church. The word is often used, like town, in opposition to country.
2. n. The inhabitants of a city, collectively.
3. n. Medina in Arabia, where Mohammed took refuge when driven by conspirators from Mecca, his native city, a. d. 622.
4. Pertaining to a city; urban: as, a city feast; city manners; “city wives,”
5. Pertaining to the class of tradespeople, as opposed to people of birth.
6. One engaged in mercantile pursuits, as distinguished from one whose interests are landed, agricultural, or professional; a business man.

Wiktionary

1. n. A large settlement, bigger than a town.
2. n. Australia The central business district; downtown.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A large town.
2. n. 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.
3. n. The collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city.
4. adj. Of or pertaining to a city.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts
2. n. an incorporated administrative district established by state charter
3. n. people living in a large densely populated municipality