cities
 城市,全體市民,city的複數


 Cit·y n.; pl. Cities
 1. A large town.
 2. 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.
    A city is a town incorporated; which is, or has been, the see of a bishop; and though the bishopric has been dissolved, as at Westminster, it yet remaineth a city.   --Blackstone
    When Gorges constituted York a city, he of course meant it to be the seat of a bishop, for the word city has no other meaning in English law.   --Palfrey
 3. The collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city.  “What is the city but the people?”
 Syn: -- See Village.