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

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

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

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

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

Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.
Jimi Hendrix

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

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
Walt Whitman

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
Walt Whitman

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

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

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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