What is the meaning of CITY. Phrases containing CITY
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A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia.
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A small assemblage of houses in the country, less than a town or city.
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A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off the filth. The name is also applied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anything injurious to health.
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A sign or memorial of a victory raised on the field of battle, or, in case of a naval victory, on the nearest land. Sometimes trophies were erected in the chief city of the conquered people.
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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.
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To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets.
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The collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city.
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Of or belonging to a city or town; as, an urban population.
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A railway laid in the streets of a town or city, on which cars for passengers or for freight are drawn by horses; a horse railroad.
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The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage.
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To transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from city to city.
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To deprive, as a city, of a bishop; to deprive, as a clergyman, of episcopal dignity or rights.
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Of or pertaining to a city.
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Belonging to, or suiting, those living in a city; cultivated; polite; urbane; as, urban manners.
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To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage.
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A division, class, or distinct portion of a people, from whatever cause that distinction may have originated; as, the city of Athens was divided into ten tribes.
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Of or pertaining to Trent, or the general church council held in that city.
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Situated in, or belonging to, the upper part of a town or city; as, a uptown street, shop, etc.; uptown society.
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To deprive of the rank or rights of a city.
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Of or pertaining to a city; urban.
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