Meaning of city | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A large settlement, bigger than a town; sometimes with a specific legal definition, depending on the place.
2. Manchester City Football Club, an English football club.
   informal
3. The City of London, the historic core of London where the Roman settlement of Londinium was established.
   UK
4. A large and important town:metropolis, municipality.
5. A settlement granted special status by royal charter or letters patent; traditionally, a settlement with a cathedral regardless of size.
   UK, historical
6. The United Kingdom's financial industries, which are principally based in the City of London.
   UK
7. Of, in, or belonging to a city:metropolitan, municipal, urban.
8. The central business district; downtown.
   Australia
9. The borough of Manhattan, the historic core of New York.
   New-York
10. ciudad; ___ dwelling → residencia en una ___.
11. Any of several other cities in metropolitan areas (such as San Francisco).
12. A large amount of something (used after the noun).
    slang
13. A center of population, commerce, and culture; a town of significant size and importance.
14. An incorporated municipality in the United States with definite boundaries and legal powers set forth in a charter granted by the state.
15. The inhabitants of a city considered as a group.
16. An ancient Greek city-state.
17. Slang Used in combination as an intensive: The playing field was mud city after the big rain.
    Slang
18. City The financial and commercial center of London. Used with the.
19. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) any large town or populous place

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Examples

“São Paulo is the largest city in South America.”

“Ah, knovv you not the Citie fauours them, / And they haue troupes of Souldiers at their beck?”

“So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.”

“But clever cities will not necessarily be better ones.”

“One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.”

“All our stations have changed. We have to constrain numbers. We have to mandate face coverings. These are massive changes in what is a public transport city. This is not a car city.”

“The Ukrainian government says Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Odesa, Zaporizhzhia and other cities have suffered a barrage of drone attacks, and pleaded with Western countries to step up their assistance in the face of the new challenge. […] But Ukraine claimed its forces had shot down one of these drones for the first time last month near the city of Kupyansk in Kharkiv.”

“Manchester, incorporated in 1838, was made the centre of a bishopric in 1847 and became a city in 1853. Liverpool was transformed into a city by Royal Charter when the new diocese of Liverpool was created in 1880.”

“St Davids itself is the smallest city in Great Britain, with a population of less than 2,000.”

“I'm going into the city today to do some shopping.”

“It’s video game city in here!”

“City will reportedly look to have a fee for Aguero.”

“Smalling’s quick one-two of yellow cards towards the end of the first half had left an air of inevitability about what would follow and, if anything, it was probably a surprise that City restricted themselves to Sergio Agüero’s goal bearing in mind another of United’s defenders, Marcos Rojo, was taken off on a stretcher early in the second half with a dislocated shoulder.”

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