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Definition of Mayor
1. Noun. The head of a city government.
Specialized synonyms: Ex-mayor, Alcalde, Burgomaster, Mayoress
Generic synonyms: Politician, Civil Authority, Civil Officer
Derivative terms: Mayoral
Definition of Mayor
1. n. The chief magistrate of a city or borough; the chief officer of a municipal corporation. In some American cities there is a city court of which the major is chief judge.
Definition of Mayor
1. Noun. The leader of a city, or a municipality, sometimes just a figurehead and sometimes a powerful position. In some countries, the mayor is elected by the citizens or by the city council. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mayor
1. the chief executive official of a city or borough [n -S] : MAYORAL [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mayor
Literary usage of Mayor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"In this view it makes no difference that the reason which the mayor gave for ...
It was said, that it is incident to the office of mayor to direct and ..."
2. A survey of London by John Stow (1842)
"Edward II. began his reign 7'h of July, the year of Christ, 1307. 1307. The 1st,
sheriffs, Nicholas Pigot, Nigellus Drury ; mayor, Sir John Blunt. 1308. ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1907)
"choose annually whom they would to be their mayor, subject to the proviso that
he should be presented to the King, or, in the King's absence, ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"Said bonds shall be signed by the mayor and countersigned by the secretary, ...
It sball be the duty of the mayor, whenever any bond or bonds are issued, ..."
5. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1921)
"Ordered, That the Clerk transmit said bill to the mayor of the city of New York
for a hearing, pursuant to the provisions of the Constitution. ..."
6. The Cambridge Medieval History by John Bagnell Bury, James Pounder Whitney (1913)
"Among these officials the foremost place was gradually taken by the mayor of the
Palace, whose office was peculiar to the Merovingian courts. ..."
7. The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, Excluding Shakespeare by William Allan Neilson (1911)
"Firk. Is he married ? God give him joy, I am gl:ul of it. They have a fair day,
and the sign is in :i good planet, Mara in Venus. L. mayor. ..."
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