CITIES
Noun
cities
plural of city
plural of citie
Anagrams
• iciest
Source: Wiktionary
CITY
Cit"y (, n.; pl. Cities. Etym: [OE. cite, F. citcivitas citizenship,
state, city, fr. civis citizen; akin to Goth. heiwa (in heiwafrauja
man of the house), AS. heirath marriage, prop., providing a house, E.
hind a peasant.]
1. A large town.
2. 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.
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
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
3. The collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city. "What
is the city but the people" Shak.
Syn.
– See Village.
Cit"y, a.
Definition: Of or pertaining to a city. Shak. 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition