City

n.	1.	A large town.
	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. 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 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
	3.	The collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city.
a.	1.	Of or pertaining to a city. City council See under Council. City court The municipal court of a city. City ward a watchman, or the collective watchmen, of a city. - Fairfax.

Noun	1.	city - a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts; "Ancient Troy was a great city" Synonyms: metropolis, urban center
	2.	city - an incorporated administrative district established by state charter; "the city raised the tax rate"
	3.	city - people living in a large densely populated municipality; "the city voted for Republicans in 1994" Synonyms: metropolis

CITY, government. A town incorporated by that name. Originally, this word did not signify a town, but a portion of mankind who lived under the same government: what the Romans called civitas, and, the Greeks polis; whence the word politeia, civitas seu reipublicae status et administratio. Toull. Dr. Civ. Fr. 1. 1, t. 1, n. 202; Henrion de Pansey, Pouvoir Municipal, pp. 36, 37.

To see a city in your dream, signifies a sense of community and your social environment. To dream that you are in a deserted city or that you feel alienated from the activity of the city, then it suggests that you feel rejected by those around you. To see a city in ruins, denotes that you are neglecting your social relationships and allowing them to deteriorate.Bowery, Chinatown, East End, East Side, Kreis, Little Hungary, Little Italy, Stadt, West End, West Side, archbishopric, archdiocese, arrondissement, bailiwick, banlieue, barrio, bishopric, black ghetto, blighted area, boom town, borough, bourg, burg, burgh, burghal, business district, canton, central city, citified, city center, civic, commune, congressional district, constablewick, conurbation, core, county, departement, diocese, district, downtown, duchy, electoral district, electorate, exurb, exurbia, faubourg, ghetto, ghost town, government, greater city, greenbelt, hamlet, hundred, inner city, interurban, magistracy, market town, megalopolis, metropolitan, metropolitan area, midtown, municipal, oblast, okrug, oppidan, outskirts, parish, polis, precinct, principality, province, red-light district, region, residential district, riding, run-down neighborhood, see, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shire, shopping center, shrievalty, skid road, skid row, slum, slums, soke, spread city, stake, state, suburb, suburban, suburbia, suburbs, tenderloin, tenement district, territory, town, township, uptown, urban, urban blight, urban complex, urban sprawl, urbs, village, ville, wapentake, ward

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