city 音标拼音: [s'ɪti]
n . 城市,都市,…市
城市,都市,…市
city n 1 :
a large and densely populated urban area ;
may include several independent administrative districts ; "
Ancient Troy was a great city " [
synonym : {
city }, {
metropolis }, {
urban center }]
2 :
an incorporated administrative district established by state charter ; "
the city raised the tax rate "
3 :
people living in a large densely populated municipality ; "
the city voted for Republicans in 1994 " [
synonym : {
city },
{
metropolis }]
City \
Cit "
y \,
a .
Of or pertaining to a city . --
Shak .
[
1913 Webster ]
{
City council }.
See under {
Council }.
{
City court },
The municipal court of a city . [
U .
S .]
{
City ward },
a watchman ,
or the collective watchmen ,
of a city . [
Obs .] --
Fairfax .
[
1913 Webster ]
City \
Cit "
y \ (
s [
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t "[
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n .;
pl . {
Cities } (
s [
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t "[
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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 ]
112 Moby Thesaurus words for "
city ":
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 ,
metropolis ,
metropolitan ,
metropolitan area ,
midtown ,
municipal ,
municipality ,
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 City The earliest mention of city -
building is that of Enoch ,
which was built by Cain (
Gen .
4 :
17 ).
After the confusion of tongues ,
the descendants of Nimrod founded several cities (
10 :
10 -
12 ).
Next ,
we have a record of the cities of the Canaanites ,
Sidon ,
Gaza ,
Sodom ,
etc . (
10 :
12 ,
19 ;
11 :
3 ,
9 ;
36 :
31 -
39 ).
The earliest description of a city is that of Sodom (
19 :
1 -
22 ).
Damascus is said to be the oldest existing city in the world .
Before the time of Abraham there were cities in Egypt (
Num .
13 :
22 ).
The Israelites in Egypt were employed in building the "
treasure cities "
of Pithom and Raamses (
Ex .
1 :
11 );
but it does not seem that they had any cities of their own in Goshen (
Gen .
46 :
34 ;
47 :
1 -
11 ).
In the kingdom of Og in Bashan there were sixty "
great cities with walls ,"
and twenty -
three cities in Gilead partly rebuilt by the tribes on the east of Jordan (
Num .
21 :
21 ,
32 ,
33 ,
35 ;
32 :
1 -
3 ,
34 -
42 ;
Deut .
3 :
4 ,
5 ,
14 ;
1 Kings 4 :
13 ).
On the west of Jordan were thirty -
one "
royal cities " (
Josh .
12 ),
besides many others spoken of in the history of Israel .
A fenced city was a city surrounded by fortifications and high walls ,
with watch -
towers upon them (
2 Chr .
11 :
11 ;
Deut .
3 :
5 ).
There was also within the city generally a tower to which the citizens might flee when danger threatened them (
Judg .
9 :
46 -
52 ).
A city with suburbs was a city surrounded with open pasture -
grounds ,
such as the forty -
eight cities which were given to the Levites (
Num .
35 :
2 -
7 ).
There were six cities of refuge ,
three on each side of Jordan ,
namely ,
Kadesh ,
Shechem ,
Hebron ,
on the west of Jordan ;
and on the east ,
Bezer ,
Ramoth -
gilead ,
and Golan .
The cities on each side of the river were nearly opposite each other .
The regulations concerning these cities are given in Num .
35 :
9 -
34 ;
Deut .
19 :
1 -
13 ;
Ex .
21 :
12 -
14 .
When David reduced the fortress of the Jebusites which stood on Mount Zion ,
he built on the site of it a palace and a city ,
which he called by his own name (
1 Chr .
11 :
5 ),
the city of David .
Bethlehem is also so called as being David '
s native town (
Luke 2 :
4 ).
Jerusalem is called the Holy City ,
the holiness of the temple being regarded as extending in some measure over the whole city (
Neh .
11 :
1 ).
Pithom and Raamses ,
built by the Israelites as "
treasure cities ,"
were not places where royal treasures were kept ,
but were fortified towns where merchants might store their goods and transact their business in safety ,
or cities in which munitions of war were stored . (
See {
PITHOM }.)
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 .
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