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    [Noun]  | "city" | \ ˈsi-tē \


    1: an inhabited place of greater size, population, or importance than a town or village

    2: an incorporated British town usually of major size or importance having the status of an episcopal see

    3: the financial district of London

    Origin: 13th century ;

     Middle English citie large or small town, from Anglo-French cité, from Medieval Latin civitat-, civitas, from Latin, citizenship, state, city of Rome, from civis citizen {mat|hind|};

    [Noun]  | "city clerk" 


    1: a public officer charged with recording the official proceedings and vital statistics of a city

    Origin: 1656 ;

    [Noun]  | "city council" 


    1: the legislative body of a city

    Origin: 1641 ;

    [Noun]  | "city editor" 


    1: a newspaper editor usually in charge of local news and staff assignments

    Origin: 1818 ;

    [Noun]  | "city father" 


    1: a member (such as an alderman or councilman) of the governing body of a city

    Origin: 1834 ;

    [Noun]  | "city hall" 


    1: the chief administrative building of a city

    2: a municipal government

    3: city officialdom or bureaucracy

    Origin: 1603 ;

    [Noun]  | "city manager" 


    1: an official employed by an elected council to direct the administration of a city government

    Origin: 1909 ;

    [Noun]  | "city planning" 


    1: the drawing up of an organized arrangement (as of streets, parks, and business and residential areas) of a city

    Origin: 1900 ;

    [Noun]  | "city room" 


    1: the department where local news is handled in a newspaper editorial office

    Origin: 1895 ;

    [Noun]  | "city slicker" 


    1: slicker

    Origin: 1914 ;

    [Noun]  | "city" 


    1: a thickly settled, highly populated area;


      * e.g., " ... commuters who drive every day between their homes in the suburbs and their jobs in the city "



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    [Noun]  | "city slicker" 


    1: a person with the outlook, experience, and manners thought to be typical of big city dwellers;


      * e.g., " ... with their snotty attitude, the city slickers quickly wore out their welcome "




    [Noun]  | "city-state" 


    1: a state that has its own government and consists of a city and the area around it;


      * e.g., " ... the city-states of ancient Greece "



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    [Noun]  | "city slickers" 


    1: a person with the outlook, experience, and manners thought to be typical of big city dwellers;


      * e.g., " ... with their snotty attitude, the city slickers quickly wore out their welcome "




    [Noun]  | "city-states" 


    1: a state that has its own government and consists of a city and the area around it;


      * e.g., " ... the city-states of ancient Greece "



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    [Noun]  | "garden city" 


    1: as in central city, edge city;


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    [Noun]  | "inner city" 


    1: as in downtown, core city;


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    [Noun]  | "core city" 


    1: as in downtown, inner city;


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    [Noun]  | "central city" 


    1: as in garden city, edge city;


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    [Noun]  | "edge city" 


    1: as in central city, garden city;


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     [ "city" ]

    1: A place to live, usually with corrupt mayors and lots of pollution. The real world is only in the city, not on Ole McD's Farm.

      * e.g.,  ... I live in a city and i pay high taxes and have lung cancer from car fumes. 

     [ "city" ]

    1:  A large urban area, with many buildings are people. An area with over 100,000 people is called a city.

      * e.g.,  ... Philadelphia is a large city. 

     [ "city" ]

    2:  Occuring in, or relating to a large urban area, as in city streets.

      * e.g.,  ... It's garbage city in here! Look at all the trash! 

     [ "city" ]

    3:  A large quantity of something. usually used in the expression "It's X city (in here).

     [ "city" ]

    4: For example It's snow city would mean there's a lot of snow

     [ "city" ]

    1: a term used to emphasize the amount of something.

      * e.g.,  ... Stanford is ugly bitch city! The hottest cheerleader here is still only a 5! 

     [ "city" ]

    1: see also shite, embarassing, and bitters.

      * e.g.,  ... City < United 

     [ "city" ]

    1: when you fuck a girl sideways, flip her over and splooge in her hair

      * e.g.,  ... I totally cityed that bitch jenn 

     [ "city" ]

    1: tha wonderful area known to tourists as San Francisco.

      * e.g.,  ... Boi..I'm from the city by tha bay..what thizz it? 

     [ "The City" ]

    1: local term for San Francisco, only used by people who live in the Bay Area.

      * e.g.,  ... all I did over the weekend was stay in The City and eat Dim Sum 

     [ "The City" ]

    1: Another way of saying San Francisco.

      * e.g.,  ... I'm going to the city today. 

     [ "The City" ]

    1: Nickname for San Francisco. Sometimes also called "San Fran", but the local residents hate it when someone refers to it as "'Frisco". A wonderful city for all, with steep hilly streets, among other things.

      * e.g.,  ... Jeremy: Let's check out The City and see Lombard Street. It's the Crookedest Street in the World. After that we can get on a ferry and visit Alcatraz. Then we can have a pizza. 

     [ "-City" ]

    1: adj., A way to say something possesses a distinguishing attribute exceedingly; that it is just even more than regular.

      * e.g.,  ... -City turns existing words into the same word with a much stronger definition 

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