[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

city \cit"y\ si^t"y^, n.; pl. cities si^t"i^z.
   oe. cite, f. cit'e, fr. l. civitas citizenship, state,
   city, fr. civis citizen; akin to goth. heiwa in heiwafrauja
   man of the house, as. himacwan, pl., members of a family,
   servants, himacred family, g. heirath marriage, prop.,
   providing a house, e. hind a peasant.
   1. a large town.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            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
      1913 webster

            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
      1913 webster

   3. the collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city.
      "what is the city but the people?" --shak.

   syn: see village.
        1913 webster
see also:
cities village 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

city \cit"y\, a.
   of or pertaining to a city. --shak.
   1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
city council council city court city ward 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

city
     n 1: a large and densely populated urban area; may include
          several independent administrative districts; "ancient
          troy was a great city" syn: metropolis, urban center
     2: an incorporated administrative district established by state
        charter; "the city raised the tax rate"
     3: people living in a large densely populated municipality;
        "the city voted for republicans in 1994" syn: metropolis
see also:
metropolis urban center 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

112 moby thesaurus words for "city":
   bowery, chinatown, east end, east side, kreis, little hungary,
   little italy, stadt, west end, west side, archbishopric,
   archdiocese, arrondissement, bailiwick, banlieue, barrio,
   bishopric, black ghetto, blighted area, boom town, borough, bourg,
   burg, burgh, burghal, business district, canton, central city,
   citified, city center, civic, commune, congressional district,
   constablewick, conurbation, core, county, departement, diocese,
   district, downtown, duchy, electoral district, electorate, exurb,
   exurbia, faubourg, ghetto, ghost town, government, greater city,
   greenbelt, hamlet, hundred, inner city, interurban, magistracy,
   market town, megalopolis, metropolis, metropolitan,
   metropolitan area, midtown, municipal, municipality, oblast, okrug,
   oppidan, outskirts, parish, polis, precinct, principality,
   province, red-light district, region, residential district, riding,
   run-down neighborhood, see, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shire,
   shopping center, shrievalty, skid road, skid row, slum, slums,
   soke, spread city, stake, state, suburb, suburban, suburbia,
   suburbs, tenderloin, tenement district, territory, town, township,
   uptown, urban, urban blight, urban complex, urban sprawl, urbs,
   village, ville, wapentake, ward

[5] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

city
   the earliest mention of city-building is that of enoch, which
   was built by cain gen. 4:17. after the confusion of tongues,
   the descendants of nimrod founded several cities 10:10-12.
   next, we have a record of the cities of the canaanites, sidon,
   gaza, sodom, etc. 10:12, 19; 11:3, 9; 36:31-39. the earliest
   description of a city is that of sodom 19:1-22. damascus is
   said to be the oldest existing city in the world. before the
   time of abraham there were cities in egypt num. 13:22. the
   israelites in egypt were employed in building the "treasure
   cities" of pithom and raamses ex. 1:11; but it does not seem
   that they had any cities of their own in goshen gen. 46:34;
   47:1-11. in the kingdom of og in bashan there were sixty "great
   cities with walls," and twenty-three cities in gilead partly
   rebuilt by the tribes on the east of jordan num. 21:21, 32, 33,
   35; 32:1-3, 34-42; deut. 3:4, 5, 14; 1 kings 4:13. on the west
   of jordan were thirty-one "royal cities" josh. 12, besides
   many others spoken of in the history of israel.
   
     a fenced city was a city surrounded by fortifications and high
   walls, with watch-towers upon them 2 chr. 11:11; deut. 3:5.
   there was also within the city generally a tower to which the
   citizens might flee when danger threatened them judg. 9:46-52.
   
     a city with suburbs was a city surrounded with open
   pasture-grounds, such as the forty-eight cities which were given
   to the levites num. 35:2-7. there were six cities of refuge,
   three on each side of jordan, namely, kadesh, shechem, hebron,
   on the west of jordan; and on the east, bezer, ramoth-gilead,
   and golan. the cities on each side of the river were nearly
   opposite each other. the regulations concerning these cities are
   given in num. 35:9-34; deut. 19:1-13; ex. 21:12-14.
   
     when david reduced the fortress of the jebusites which stood
   on mount zion, he built on the site of it a palace and a city,
   which he called by his own name 1 chr. 11:5, the city of
   david. bethlehem is also so called as being david's native town
   luke 2:4.
   
     jerusalem is called the holy city, the holiness of the temple
   being regarded as extending in some measure over the whole city
   neh. 11:1.
   
     pithom and raamses, built by the israelites as "treasure
   cities," were not places where royal treasures were kept, but
   were fortified towns where merchants might store their goods and
   transact their business in safety, or cities in which munitions
   of war were stored. see pithom.
   
see also:
pithom 

[6] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

city, government. a town incorporated by that name. originally, this word 
did not signify a town, but a portion of mankind who lived under the same 
government: what the romans called civitas, and, the greeks polis; whence 
the word politeia, civitas seu reipublicae status et administratio. toull. 
dr. civ. fr. 1. 1, t. 1, n. 202; henrion de pansey, pouvoir municipal, pp. 
36, 37. 

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