mayor
see also: Mayor
Pronunciation Noun
Mayor
Proper noun
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see also: Mayor
Pronunciation 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.
- 2003, Mary Ruwart, Healing our world in an age of aggression - Page 374
- The Libertarian mayor of Big Water, Utah, recently slashed property taxes in half and even repealed his own salary!
- 2011, Michael Ryan, The Heart's Location, p 32
- To assist him in his task Paul was joined by Ron Adams, who had been a three-term Libertarian mayor in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
- 2003, Mary Ruwart, Healing our world in an age of aggression - Page 374
- (historical) The steward of some royal courts, particularly in early Medieval France
- (female, when distinguished) mayoress
- (head of a town) burgomaster, boroughmaster (historical, of boroughs); provost (of Scottish burghs & historical French bourgs); Lord Provost (of certain Scottish burghs); praetor (archaic)
- (royal officer) seneschal, steward
- French: maire, mairesse, bourgmestre (Belgium)
- German: Bürgermeister, Bürgermeisterin
- Italian: sindaco, sindaca, primo cittadino, prima cittadina
- Portuguese: prefeito, prefeita, presidente da câmara municipal (Portugal)
- Russian: мэр
- Spanish: alcalde, alcaldesa, intendente (Argentina), presidente municipal (Mexico), regente (Mexico City), síndico (Dominican Republic), síndica (Dominican Republic)
- French: maire
Mayor
Proper noun
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