city

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city - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  City \Cit"y\ (s[i^]t"[y^]), n.; pl. Cities (s[i^]t"[i^]z).
     [OE. cite, F. cit['e], fr. L. civitas citizenship, state,
     city, fr. civis citizen; akin to Goth. heiwa (in heiwafrauja
     man of the house), AS. h[imac]wan, pl., members of a family,
     servants, h[imac]red family, G. heirath marriage, prop.,
     providing a house, E. hind a peasant.]
     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.
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              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
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              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.
        "What is the city but the people?" --Shak.
  
     Syn: See Village.
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  City \Cit"y\, a.
     Of or pertaining to a city. --Shak.
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     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.] --Fairfax.
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city - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  city
      n 1: a large and densely populated urban area; may include
           several independent administrative districts; "Ancient Troy
           was a great city" [syn: city, metropolis, urban center
           ]
      2: an incorporated administrative district established by state
         charter; "the city raised the tax rate"
      3: people living in a large densely populated municipality; "the
         city voted for Republicans in 1994" [syn: city,
         metropolis]

city - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  City
  The earliest mention of city-building is that of Enoch, which
  was built by Cain (Gen. 4:17). After the confusion of tongues,
  the descendants of Nimrod founded several cities (10:10-12).
  Next, we have a record of the cities of the Canaanites, Sidon,
  Gaza, Sodom, etc. (10:12, 19; 11:3, 9; 36:31-39). The earliest
  description of a city is that of Sodom (19:1-22). Damascus is
  said to be the oldest existing city in the world. Before the
  time of Abraham there were cities in Egypt (Num. 13:22). The
  Israelites in Egypt were employed in building the "treasure
  cities" of Pithom and Raamses (Ex. 1:11); but it does not seem
  that they had any cities of their own in Goshen (Gen. 46:34;
  47:1-11). In the kingdom of Og in Bashan there were sixty "great
  cities with walls," and twenty-three cities in Gilead partly
  rebuilt by the tribes on the east of Jordan (Num. 21:21, 32, 33,
  35; 32:1-3, 34-42; Deut. 3:4, 5, 14; 1 Kings 4:13). On the west
  of Jordan were thirty-one "royal cities" (Josh. 12), besides
  many others spoken of in the history of Israel.
  
    A fenced city was a city surrounded by fortifications and high
  walls, with watch-towers upon them (2 Chr. 11:11; Deut. 3:5).
  There was also within the city generally a tower to which the
  citizens might flee when danger threatened them (Judg. 9:46-52).
  
    A city with suburbs was a city surrounded with open
  pasture-grounds, such as the forty-eight cities which were given
  to the Levites (Num. 35:2-7). There were six cities of refuge,
  three on each side of Jordan, namely, Kadesh, Shechem, Hebron,
  on the west of Jordan; and on the east, Bezer, Ramoth-gilead,
  and Golan. The cities on each side of the river were nearly
  opposite each other. The regulations concerning these cities are
  given in Num. 35:9-34; Deut. 19:1-13; Ex. 21:12-14.
  
    When David reduced the fortress of the Jebusites which stood
  on Mount Zion, he built on the site of it a palace and a city,
  which he called by his own name (1 Chr. 11:5), the city of
  David. Bethlehem is also so called as being David's native town
  (Luke 2:4).
  
    Jerusalem is called the Holy City, the holiness of the temple
  being regarded as extending in some measure over the whole city
  (Neh. 11:1).
  
    Pithom and Raamses, built by the Israelites as "treasure
  cities," were not places where royal treasures were kept, but
  were fortified towns where merchants might store their goods and
  transact their business in safety, or cities in which munitions
  of war were stored. (See PITHOM.)

city - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  CITY, government. A town incorporated by that name. Originally, this word 
  did not signify a town, but a portion of mankind who lived under the same 
  government: what the Romans called civitas, and, the Greeks polis; whence 
  the word politeia, civitas seu reipublicae status et administratio. Toull. 
  Dr. Civ. Fr. 1. 1, t. 1, n. 202; Henrion de Pansey, Pouvoir Municipal, pp. 
  36, 37. 
  
  

city - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  112 Moby Thesaurus words for "city":
     Bowery, Chinatown, East End, East Side, Kreis, Little Hungary,
     Little Italy, Stadt, West End, West Side, archbishopric,
     archdiocese, arrondissement, bailiwick, banlieue, barrio,
     bishopric, black ghetto, blighted area, boom town, borough, bourg,
     burg, burgh, burghal, business district, canton, central city,
     citified, city center, civic, commune, congressional district,
     constablewick, conurbation, core, county, departement, diocese,
     district, downtown, duchy, electoral district, electorate, exurb,
     exurbia, faubourg, ghetto, ghost town, government, greater city,
     greenbelt, hamlet, hundred, inner city, interurban, magistracy,
     market town, megalopolis, metropolis, metropolitan,
     metropolitan area, midtown, municipal, municipality, oblast, okrug,
     oppidan, outskirts, parish, polis, precinct, principality,
     province, red-light district, region, residential district, riding,
     run-down neighborhood, see, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shire,
     shopping center, shrievalty, skid road, skid row, slum, slums,
     soke, spread city, stake, state, suburb, suburban, suburbia,
     suburbs, tenderloin, tenement district, territory, town, township,
     uptown, urban, urban blight, urban complex, urban sprawl, urbs,
     village, ville, wapentake, ward