Definition of cit
1. city [ n ] a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts
Examples:
"Ancient Troy was a great city"
(The Atlanta Constitution...)
`` Only a relative handful of such reports was received '' , the jury said , `` considering the widespread interest in the election , the number of voters and the size of_this city '' .
(The Dallas Morning News,...)
The House passed finally , and sent to the Senate , a bill extending the State_Health_Department 's authority to give planning assistance to cities .
Paradise lost to the alleged water needs of Texas ' big cities Thursday .
Rep._James_Cotten of Weatherford insisted that a water_development bill passed by the Texas House_of_Representatives was an effort by big cities like Dallas and Fort_Worth to cover_up places like Paradise , a Wise_County hamlet of 250 people .
Cotten construed this as a veiled effort by Parkhouse to help Dallas and other large cities get money which Cotten felt could better be spent providing water for rural Texas .
Synonyms city metropolis urban_center Related Terms municipality New_York Chicago Dallas Kansas_City Los_Angeles Manchester San_Francisco Philadelphia St._Louis Detroit gateway_to_the_west Baltimore Houston Pittsburgh Cleveland Savannah Newport Memphis Montreal Fort_Worth New_Orleans Cincinnati Seattle Minneapolis Milwaukee Tel_Aviv Liverpool Bombay Palermo Birmingham Acapulco Firenze Bonn Manchester Venice Oxford Munich Las_Vegas Newcastle New_Haven Odessa Birmingham St._Petersburg Merida Cancun Antofagasta Veracruz Ciudad_Juarez Punta_Arenas national_capital Oaxaca Orizaba Valparaiso Jaffa Guadalajara Lanzhou provincial_capital Dunkirk Aquila Naples Tijuana Corinth Argos Delphi Mycenae Sparta Troy Thebes Thessalonika Sodom Gomorrah Nineveh Haifa Kyoto Byzantium Pompeii Herculaneum Messina Bologna San_Juan Shanghai Genoa Milan Bergen Pisa Syracuse Trondheim Canton state_capital Turin Bari Malmo Tangier Lagos Lund Shenyang Padua Gdansk Goteborg Verona Dubrovnik Dresden Tianjin Oran Ufa Volgograd Banff Calgary Leipzig Vancouver Saint_John Weimar Nanking Rostov Hamilton Saskatoon Antwerp Cologne Chungking Hamilton Bruges Natal Braunschweig Rio_de_Janeiro Recife Swansea Alexandria Aswan Giza Memphis Luxor Delhi Calcutta Dusseldorf Madras Salem Bandung Mashhad Shiraz Tabriz Qum Persepolis Edirne Babylon Assur Xian Utica Naha_City Osaka Sao_Paulo Hiroshima Sapporo Kitakyushu Fukuoka Nagasaki Aqaba Mombasa Bordeaux Cannes Nice Orleans Versailles Marseilles Lyon The_Hague Nijmegen Rotterdam Leiden Utrecht Thorshavn Taegu Pusan Tripoli Benghazi Zomba Timbuktu Casablanca Lancaster Aukland Essen Karachi Cebu Cracow Hull Lodz Wroclaw Papeete Mecca Hargeisa Cape_Town Johannesburg Bloemfontein Soweto Gorki Kazan St._Petersburg Perm Frankfurt_on_the_Main Luoyang2. city [ n ] an incorporated administrative district established by state charter
Examples:
"the city raised the tax rate"
(The Atlanta Constitution...)
The City_Purchasing_Department , the jury said , `` is lacking in experienced clerical personnel as a result of city personnel policies '' .
It urged that the city `` take steps to remedy '' this problem .
Fulton legislators `` work with city officials to pass enabling_legislation that will permit the establishment of a fair and equitable '' pension plan for city employes .
Fulton legislators `` work with city officials to pass enabling_legislation that will permit the establishment of a fair and equitable '' pension plan for city employes .
(The New York Times,...)
Shaw and Skorich headed a group of players , coaches and team officials who received an engrossed copy of an official city citation and a pair of silver cufflinks shaped like a football .
Synonyms city Related Terms administrative_district seat uptown public_square city_limit city_district3. city [ n ] people living in a large densely populated municipality
Examples:
"the city voted for Republicans in 1994"
(W. E. B. DuBois, Worlds of Color....)
For the old preacher who had been there twenty-five years was dead , and the city mourned him .
Synonyms city metropolis Related Terms municipality citifySimilar Spelling
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