Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A center of population, commerce, and culture; a town of significant size and importance.
- noun An incorporated municipality in the United States with definite boundaries and legal powers set forth in a charter granted by the state.
- noun A Canadian municipality of high rank, usually determined by population but varying by province.
- noun A large incorporated town in Great Britain, usually the seat of a bishop, with its title conferred by the Crown.
- noun The inhabitants of a city considered as a group.
- noun An ancient Greek city-state.
- noun Slang Used in combination as an intensive.
- noun The financial and commercial center of London. Used with the.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large and important town; any large town holding an important position in the state in which it is situated.
- noun The inhabitants of a city, collectively.
- noun Medina in Arabia, where Mohammed took refuge when driven by conspirators from Mecca, his native city,
a. d. 622. - Pertaining to a city; urban: as, a city feast; city manners; “city wives,”
- Pertaining to the class of tradespeople, as opposed to people of birth.
- One engaged in mercantile pursuits, as distinguished from one whose interests are landed, agricultural, or professional; a business man.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A large town.
- noun 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.
- noun The collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a city.
- adjective See under
Council . - adjective [U. S.] The municipal court of a city.
- adjective [Obs.] a watchman, or the collective watchmen, of a city.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A large
settlement , bigger than atown . - noun Australia The
central business district ;downtown .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts
- noun an incorporated administrative district established by state charter
- noun people living in a large densely populated municipality
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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How many school buses that could have taken them out of the city just sat there, unused, because the * city* government couldn't get their girdle in gear abuot it?
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So ˜Istanbul™ denotes one thing, namely the Turkish city, ˜city™ denotes many things, namely all cities, and
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_ A town or village so _near_ to a _city_ that it may be used for residence by those doing business in the city.
Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois
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Rome created the word that denotes this marvellous and monstrous phenomenon, of history, the enormous city, the deceitful source of life and death -- _urbs_ -- _the city_.
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The observation of even the miscellaneous objects in a large city leads to a variety of concepts, and in the end, by comparison, to the general notion, _city_.
The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart
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But now, in regular employment, in a city, -- _their own city_!
Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865
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This might be all well enough, but the question was, how were these troops, strangers to the city, to find out where "_such parts of the city_" were in which was "_the greatest danger from the rioters_?"
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In plain English: "Insert the values $zip, $city, and $state into the columns id, city, and state in the char_zipcode table."
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The expression could be something like this it. city = @city OR @city IS NULL
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InsertCommand = "INSERT INTO [emp] ([city], [state]) VALUES (@city, @state)"
sakhalinskii commented on the word city
"City life is millions of people being lonesome together." - Henry David Thoreau
July 30, 2008
tbtabby commented on the word city
Means "feelings" in Czech.
July 13, 2009