city
Noun
(cities)
A large settlement, bigger than a town.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city‘; the ‘ city of one’s dreams.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= It’s a gas
, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city ’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
(lb) The central business district; downtown.
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Derived terms
(Terms derived from the above definition of “city”)
* citify
* citizen
* city banker
* city block
* city boy
* city center
* city centre
* city clerk
* city desk
* city district
* city father
* city girl
* city hall
* city limit
* city line
* city man
* city manager
* city planning
* city room
* city slicker
* city-state
* cityscape
* citywide
* (l)
* holy city
* inner city/inner-city
* sister city
* the city
* twin city
(city)
See also
* metropolis
* megalopolis
* megacity
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municipality
English
Noun
(wikipedia municipality )
(municipalities)
A district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.
The governing body of such a district.
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, passage=From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality , all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.}}
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