1. (n.) A large town.

2. (n.) 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.

3. (n.) The collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city.

4. (a.) of or pertaining to a city.

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