01 n. A large town.
pl.
Cities ((sĭt"ĭz))
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1.
A large town.
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2.
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.” — Blackstone“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.” — Palfrey
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3.
The collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city.
Syn.
See Village.