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Definition of Cities
1. city [n] - See also: city
Medical Definition of Cities
1. A large or important municipality of a country, usually a major metropolitan centre. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cities
Literary usage of Cities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Phi Delta Kappan by Phi Delta Kappa (1912)
"In 827 cities the minimum budget approved for-33 is 6.3 per cent lower than ...
In only 45.2 per cent of the 1388 cities reporting on the question will the ..."
2. The City: Urban Communities and Their Problems by Alan S. Berger (1978)
"cities provide their residents with conveniences, services, and opportunities
not available ... In our older and larger cities this is no longer the case. ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, William Smith (1862)
"The solitudes of Asia and Africa were once covered with flourishing cities, whose
populousness, and even whose existence, was derived from such artificial ..."
4. The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1921)
"THE GREEK cities THE GREEK cities THAT WERE REALLY STATES WE modern people love
the sound of the word "big." We pride ourselves upon the fact that we belong ..."
5. Municipal Administration by John Archibald Fairlie (1901)
"ALTHOUGH a striking characteristic of the nineteenth century, the phenomenon of
great cities is by no means confined to this period, and such cities are to ..."
6. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1850)
"I find 46 cities and walled towns in Alsatia, a small province in Germany, ...
The Low Countries generally have three cities at least for one of ours, ..."
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