GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   City , n.; pl. Cities . [OE. cite, F. cité, fr. L. civitas citizenship, state, city, fr. civis citizen; akin to Goth. heiwa (in heiwafrauja man of the house), AS. hīwan, pl., members of a family, servants, hīred family, G.  heirath marriage, prop., providing a house, E. hind a peasant.]
   A large town.
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   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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   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, 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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