City

City

A city is a relatively large and permanent settlement. Although there is no agreement on how a city is distinguished from a town within general English language meanings, many cities have a particular administrative, legal, or historical status based on local law.

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Famous quotes containing the word city:

    “New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.”
    —Djuna Barnes (1892–1982)

    “Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happy as possible.”
    —Socrates (469–399 B.C.)

    “Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)