may·or

(mā′ər, mâr)

The head of government of a city, town, borough, or municipal corporation.

[Middle English maire, from Old French, from Medieval Latin māior, from Latin, greater, superior; see meg- in Indo-European roots.]

may′or·al (mā′ər-əl, mā-ôr′əl) adj.

may′or·ship′ n.

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mayor

(mɛə)

(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the chairman and civic head of a municipal corporation in many countries. Scottish equivalent: provost

[C13: from Old French maire, from Latin maior greater. See major]

ˈmayoral adj

ˈmayorˌship n

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

may•or

(ˈmeɪ ər, mɛər)

n.

the chief executive official of a municipality.

[1250–1300; Middle English mair < Old French < Medieval Latin, Latin major]

may′or•al, adj.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

mayor - the head of a city government

city manager

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

politician - a leader engaged in civil administration

civil authority, civil officer - a person who exercises authority over civilian affairs

Translations

رَئيس بلديَّهعُمْدَةٌ

кмет

starosta

borgmester

Bürgermeister Schulze

δήμαρχος

alcalde

pormestarikaupunginjohtajamääri

maire bourgmestre

gradonačelnikgradonačelnica

polgármester

borgar-/bæjarstjóri

sindaco borgomastro

市長

시장

lordas merasmerasmerėmero žmona

mērs, pilsētas galva

burgemeester

borgermester ordfører

burmistrz

prefeito presidente da câmara

primar

мэр алькальд

starosta

župan

borgmästare

นายกเทศมนตรี

belediye başkanıbelediye reisi

thị trưởng

市长

mayor

[mɛəʳ] N → alcalde m, alcaldesa f, intendente mf (S. Cone, Mex), regente mf (Mex)
Mr Mayor → Señor Alcalde
Madam Mayor → Señora Alcaldesa

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

mayor

[ˈmɛə^r] n → maire mf

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

mayor

n → Bürgermeister(in) m(f)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

mayor

[mɛəʳ] n → sindaco

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

mayor

(meə) , ((American) ˈmeiər) noun

(especially in England, Ireland and the United States) the chief public official of a city, town or borough.

ˈmayoress noun

1. a mayor's wife. The mayor and mayoress attended the dinner.

2. a female mayor. She has just been elected mayoress.

lord mayor

in Britain the mayor of some capital and other cities. The Lord Mayor of London.

mayor

→ عُمْدَةٌ starosta borgmester Bürgermeister δήμαρχος alcalde pormestari maire gradonačelnik sindaco 市長 시장 burgemeester ordfører burmistrz prefeito, presidente da câmara мэр borgmästare นายกเทศมนตรี belediye başkanı thị trưởng 市长

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The church and the mayor's office being near by, Luigi and Ginevra, followed by the four witnesses required by law, walked the distance, with a simplicity that deprived of all pomp this greatest event in social life.

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Figure to yourself, dear mother, it is the roof of the mayor's house that the grapnel first engages!

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'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.

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'I told you yesterday, sir,' said the Lord Mayor, 'that you might have an alderman in your house, if you could get one to come.'

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The Mayor of Lepe gazed with amazement on the mild face and slender frame of the famous warrior.

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Jacquotte was beyond all doubt the happiest cook in the kingdom; for, that nothing might be lacking in a measure of felicity as great as may be known in this world below, her vanity was continually gratified--the townspeople regarded her as an authority of an indefinite kind, and ranked her somewhere between the mayor and the park-keeper.

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The right was reserved for the Buff party, and the centre for the mayor and his officers; one of whom--the fat crier of Eatanswill--was ringing an enormous bell, by way of commanding silence, while Mr.

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The day after that in which the scene we have just described had taken place on the road between Bellegarde and Beaucaire, a man of about thirty or two and thirty, dressed in a bright blue frock coat, nankeen trousers, and a white waistcoat, having the appearance and accent of an Englishman, presented himself before the mayor of Marseilles.

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Vincy thought confusedly was, that the fever might somehow have been hindered if Wrench had shown the proper solicitude about his-- the Mayor's--family.) "I'm the last man to give in to the cry about new doctors, or new parsons either--whether they're Bulstrode's men or not.

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Early the next morning the Mayor was walking in the square below in company with the Town Councillors.

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Sapsea's importance has received enhancement, for he has become Mayor of Cloisterham.

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