Definition of City

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Definition of City

City

A large town.

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.

The collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city.

Of or pertaining to a city.

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City Quotations

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City?
Henny Youngman

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
Bill Gates

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
Groucho Marx

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
John F. Kennedy

I'm the No. 1 developer in New York, I'm the biggest in Atlantic City, and maybe we'll keep it that way.
Donald Trump

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
Aristotle

I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
Jerry Garcia

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Plato

City Translations

city in Afrikaans is stad
city in Danish is by
city in Dutch is wereldstad, grote stad
city in Finnish is kaupunki
City in German is Stadt, Stadtzentrum
city in Latin is urbs urbis
city in Norwegian is by
city in Portuguese is vila, cidade
city in Spanish is ciudad
city in Swedish is stad

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