city
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
city/ˈsɪti/
▶noun (pl. cities)
- 1 a large town, in particular (Brit.) a town created a city by charter and typically containing a cathedral.
■ N. Amer. a municipal centre incorporated by the state or province.
- 2 (the City) the part of London governed by the Lord Mayor and the Corporation.
■ the financial and commercial institutions in the City of London.
– derivatives
cityward adjective & adverb,
citywards adverb.
cityward adjective & adverb,
citywards adverb.
– origin ME (orig. denoting a town): from OFr. cite, from L. civitas, from civis ‘citizen’.
'city' also found in these Oxford entries:
academy
- acropolis
- Agent General
- alderman
- almandine
- arcology
- Argive
- astrakhan
- AUC
- avadavat
- Babylon
- Babylonian
- barbican
- barrio
- Bath bun
- bath chair
- bialy
- big
- bologna
- Bombay duck
- borough
- bound
- buckram
- burg
- burgher
- C
- Cantonese
- cap.
- capital
- capital territory
- cardboard city
- Carthaginian
- CC
- centre
- charleston
- charter
- citadel
- citified
- citizen
- City Company
- city desk
- city father
- city hall
- cityscape
- city slicker
- city state
- City Technology College
- citywide
- civic
