City \Cit"y\, a. Of or pertaining to a city. --Shak.

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

City \Cit"y\, n.; pl. Cities. [OE. cite, F. cit?, fr. L. civitas citizenship, state, city, fr. civis citizen; akin to Goth. heiwa (in heiwafrauja man of the house), AS. ?, pl., members of a family, servants, ? family, G. heirath marriage, prop., providing a house, E. hind a peasant.]

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. ``What is the city but the people?'' --Shak.

Syn: See Village.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)