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city
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[ noun ] (government) a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts
Synonyms Examples "Ancient Troy was a great city" Used in print (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 . 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 Luoyang |
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[ noun ] (government,geography) an incorporated administrative district established by state charter
Examples "the city raised the tax rate" Used in print (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 . Related terms administrative_district seat uptown public_square city_limit city_district |
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[ noun ] people living in a large densely populated municipality
Synonyms Examples "the city voted for Republicans in 1994" Used in print (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 . Related terms |
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