CITY

noun a large town.

2. city ·adj of or pertaining to a city.

3. city ·noun the collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city.

4. city ·noun 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.