Word Finder - cities

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A large settlement, bigger than a town; sometimes with a specific legal definition, depending on the place.

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São Paulo is the largest city in South America.

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A settlement granted special status by royal charter or letters patent; traditionally, a settlement with a cathedral regardless of size.

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The central business district; downtown.

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I'm going into the city today to do some shopping.

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A large amount of something (used after the noun).

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It's video game city in here!

There are three cities along the Mississippi.

I would love to visit many beautiful cities with you.

All the cities along the Mississippi River had been marked as contaminated to some extent.

He visited several cities, and in each place he was well paid for his music.

It has also been conferred during the closing years of the 19th century by letters patent on other cities - Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Bristol, Sheffield, Leeds, Cardiff, Bradford, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Belfast, Cork.

We've issued warning orders for the populace to avoid the cities, and we're stopping and quarantining everyone at the Mississippi.

The principal cities of the state are Wheeling, Huntington, Parkersburg, Charleston (the capital), Martinsburg, Fairmont and Grafton.

He had seen considerable of life in the cities in his younger days, and knew that this regal palace was no place for him.

Instead, the poorest nations should simply resign themselves to importing their food from abroad and instead get jobs working in cities in factories.

But he could hardly be said seriously to have oppressed the subject cities, and technically all the League money was spent on League business, for Athena, to whom the chief monuments in Athens were reared, was the patron goddess of the League.

Both cities are served by the Southern and the Norfolk & Western railways.

The ancient Perusia first appears in history as one of the twelve confederate cities of Etruria.

In the Lombard period it is spoken of as one of the principal cities of Tuscia.

The early history of the country is the story of a struggle for supremacy between the cities.

A metropolis demanded tribute and military support from its subject cities but left their local cults and customs unaffected.

On the latter hypothesis it has been generally assumed that the wild camels are the descendants of droves of the domesticated breed which escaped when certain central Asian cities were overwhelmed by sand-storms. This theory, according to Professor Leche, is rendered improbable by Dr Sven Hedin's observations on the habits and mode of life of the wild camel.

In the 5th century the three cities were enrolled in the Delian League, and democracies became prevalent.

Australia contains four cities whose population exceeds ioo,000, and fifteen with over 10,000.

Except in the vicinity of cities and townships, however, little use has been made of the abundant deposits of clay.

The line crossing Australia which was thus explored has since been occupied by the electric telegraph connecting Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and other Australian cities with London.

There was an almost entire cessation of building, and a large number of houses in the chief cities remained untenanted, the occupants moving to lodgings and more than one family living in a single house.

It was the most northern of the Ionian cities, and was situated on the coast of the peninsula which separates the gulf of Cyme, occupied by Aeolian settlers, from the Hermaean Gulf, on which stood Smyrna and Clazomenae.

It became in effect the principal feast of the Church, the procession of the Sacrament a gorgeous pageant, in which not only the members of the trade and craft gilds, with the magistrates of the cities, took part, but princes and sovereigns.

The whole of this portion of Central Italy is a hilly country, much broken and cut up by the torrents from the mountains, but fertile, especially in fruit-trees, olives and vines; and it has been, both in ancient and modern times, a populous district, containing many small towns though no great cities.

Unfortunately several of these fertile tracts suffer severely from malaria (q.v.), and especially the great plain adjoining the Gulf of Tarentum, which in the early ages of history was surrounded by a girdle of Greek cities—some of which attained to almost unexampled prosperity—has for centuries past been given up to almost complete desolation.

Other cities where the ceramic industries keep their ground are Pesaro, Gubbio, Faenza (whose name long ago became the distinctive term for the finer kind of potters work in France, falence), Savona and Albissola, Turin, Mondovi, Cuneo, Castellamonte, Milan, Brescia, Sassuolo, Imola, Rimini, Perugia, Castelli, &c. In all these the older styles, by which these places became famous in the IthI8th centuries, have been revived.

At present such chambers exist in many Italian cities, while leagues of improvement,, or of resistance, are rapidly spreading in the country districts.

Another convenient arrangement is the provision of letter-boxes on electric tramcars in some cities.

Libraries are numerous in Italy, those even of small cities being often rich in manuscripts and valuable works.

The development of the large cities has induced these banks to turn their attention rather to building enterprise than to mortgages on rural property.

Venice, which since the days of Attila had offered an asylum to Roman refugees from the northern cities, was left untouched.

The sea-coast cities of the south, and the islands, Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, preserved their independence.

We may reckon these measures among the earliest advantages extended to the cities, which still contained the bulk of the old Roman population, and which were destined to intervene with decisive effect two centuries later in Italian history.

The cities, exposed to pillage by Huns in the north and Saracens in the south, and ravaged on the coast by Norse pirates, asserted their right to enclose themselves with walls, and taught their burghers the use of arms. Within the circuit of their ramparts, the bishops already began to exercise authority in rivalry with the counts, to whom, since the days of Theodoric, had been entrusted the government of the Italian burghs.

Thus the titular king of Italy found himself simultaneously at war with those great vassals who had chosen him from their own class, with the turbulent factions of the Roman aristocracy, with unruly bishops in the growing cities and with the multitude of minor counts and barons who occupied the open lands, and who changed sides according to the interests of the moment.

We have seen how the cities enclosed themselves with walls, and how the bishops defined their authority against that of the counts.

The nobles from this time forward retired into the country and the mountains, fortified themselves in strong places outside the cities, and gave their best attention to fostering the rural population.

Within the cities and upon the open lands the Italians, in this and the next century, doubled, trebled and quadrupled their numbers.

The intervention of this man, Heribert, compels us to turn a closer glance upon the cities of North Italy.

To Heribert is attributed the invention of the Carroccio, which played so singular and important a part in the warfare of Italian cities.

Some Norman adventurers, on pilgrimage to St Michaels shrine on Monte Gargano, lent their swords in 1017 to the Lombard cities of Apulia against the Greeks.

The age of real autonomy, signalized by the supremacy of consuls in the cities, had arrived.

He came to supersede self-government by consuls, to deprive the cities of the privilege of making war on their own account and to extort his regalian rights of forage, food and lodging for his armies.

The intervening years had been spent by the Lombards, not irs consolidating their union, but in attempting to secure special privileges for their several cities.

The emperor retained the supreme courts of appeal within the cities, and his claim for sustenance at their expense when he came into Italy.

The privileges confirmed to the Lombard cities by the peace of Constance were extended to Tuscany, where Florence, having War of ruined Fiesole, had begun her career of freedom and clues prosperity.

This is the meaning of the three leagues, in the March, in the duchy of Spoleto and in Tuscany, which now combined the chief cities of the papal territory into allies of the holy see.

The thirteen districts in their council nominated four caporioni, who acted in concert with a senator, appointed, like the podest of other cities, for supreme judicial functions.

The Guelph party was held together with a less tight hand even in cities so consistent as Florence.

Meanwhile each party forms its own organization of chiefs, finance-officers and registrars at home, and sends ambassadors to foreign cities of the same complexion.