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MAYOR

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The head of a city government

Synonyms:

city manager; mayor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("mayor" is a kind of...):

politician (a leader engaged in civil administration)

civil authority; civil officer (a person who exercises authority over civilian affairs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mayor"):

ex-mayor (a former mayor)

alcalde (a mayor or chief magistrate of a Spanish town)

burgomaster (a mayor of a municipality in Germany or Holland or Flanders or Austria)

mayoress (a woman mayor)

Derivation:

mayoral (of or relating to a mayor or the office of mayor)

Credits

 Context examples: 

We cannot tarry, said Sir Nigel, riding towards the town, with the mayor upon his left side; the Prince awaits us at Bordeaux, and we may not be behind the general muster.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then the small peasant was brought before the mayor, and bidden to say from whence his wealth came.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

They have come in two great galleys, answered the mayor, with two bank of oars on either side, and great store of engines of war and of men-at-arms.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The mayor, however, said: “But my servant must go first.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

You see in me the mayor and chief magistrate of the ancient and powerful town of Lepe.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then the peasants made up their minds that they too would fetch some sheep for themselves, a flock apiece, but the mayor said: “I come first.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“The clams and scallops shall be ready within the hour,” the mayor answered.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then the peasants were vexed that the small peasant should have thus outwitted them, wanted to take vengeance on him, and accused him of this treachery before the mayor.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

At this same moment up came, with a flock of sheep, the very shepherd whom the peasant knew had long been wishing to be mayor, so he cried with all his might: No, I will not do it; if the whole world insists on it, I will not do it!

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The peasant, however, said: “Don’t tell me that,” and led the cow-herd before the mayor, who for his carelessness condemned him to give the peasant a cow for the calf which had run away.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)