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cities 音标拼音: [s'ɪtiz] 城市,全体市民, city的复数 城市,全体市民, city的复数 City \ Cit" y\ ( s[ i^] t"[ y^]), n.; pl. { Cities} ( s[ i^] 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. h[ imac] wan, pl., members of a family, servants, h[ imac] red 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]
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