mayor

  • 21mayor — mayoral, adj. mayorship, n. /may euhr, mair/, n. 1. the chief executive official, usually elected, of a city, village, or town. 2. the chief magistrate of a city or borough. [1250 1300; < ML major MAJOR; r. ME mer, mair < OF maire] * * *&#8230; …

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  • 22mayor — 01. New York City voted in a new [mayor] during municipal elections held this past November. 02. The [mayoral] candidates will be speaking at a public meeting next week. 03. Who do you think will win the [mayoralty] race in New York? 04. The&#8230; …

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  • 23Mayor, Mr —    In Britain and America a mayor is the nominal head of a city or borough. When the official is a man the normal polite form of address is ‘Mr Mayor’. A British example of this usage occurs in Bless me, Father, by Neil Boyd. In Garson Kanin’s&#8230; …

    A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

  • 24Mayor — Hato Mayor Pour les articles homonymes, voir Hato. Hato Mayor Administration Pays République dominicaine Capitale …

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  • 25mayor — (adj) (Básico) que tiene más años Ejemplos: Mi hermano mayor tiene 35 años. Su mujer es mayor que él. Sinónimos: viejo, anciano (m) (Básico) (en el ejército) grado inmediatamente inferior al de teniente coronel e inmediatamente superior al de&#8230; …

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  • 26mayor — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ local ▪ deputy ▪ lord (in the UK) ▪ In 1662–3 he served as Lord Mayor of London. ▪ Democratic, Re …

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  • 27Mayor — Recorded as Maier, Maior, Mair, Mayer, Mayor, Meyer, Meier, Mayers, Meyers, and diminutives such as the Spanish and Catalan Mayoral, this notable surname is of Roman and Frankish pre 5th century origins. It is widely recorded in early English,&#8230; …

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  • 28mayor */*/ — UK [meə(r)] / US [ˈmeɪər] noun [countable] Word forms mayor : singular mayor plural mayors the most important elected official in a town or city The election of the mayor was usually a popular occasion. Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London&#8230; …

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  • 29Mayor — May|or auch: Ma|yor 〈[ mɛ:ə(r)] m. 6; in England u. den USA〉 Bürgermeister [engl., „Bürgermeister“; zu lat. maior „größer, höher“] * * * Ma|y|or [ meə], der; s, s [engl. mayor &LT; afrz. maire, Maire]: Bürgermeister in Großbritannien u. in den&#8230; …

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  • 30mayor — [13] Mayor and major are ultimately the same word. The ancestor of mayor is Latin mājor ‘larger’, which reached English via medieval Latin mājor (used nominally as the title of various officials) and Old French maire. In Middle English the word&#8230; …

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