MAYOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mayor mean? 

• MAYOR (noun)
  The noun MAYOR has 1 sense:

1. the head of a city government

  Familiarity information: MAYOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAYOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The head of a city government

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

city manager; mayor

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)

 Context examples 

The peasant said: “If you will get in, you will be mayor.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“By Our Lady! my sweet Sir Oliver,” cried the mayor.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It chanced, however, that the mayor and corporation waited upon him with an address of thanks for his good intentions towards the town, and that the burgesses, having ordered new coats from London for the occasion, were all arrayed in velvet collars, which so preyed upon my uncle’s spirits that he took to his bed, and never showed his face in public again.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When the barrel began to roll, the shepherd cried: “I am quite willing to be mayor.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

By St. Paul! most worthy mayor, my old friend is a perilous man, and I rede you that you compose your difference with him on such terms as you may.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The mayor pressed forward and said: “I will go down first, and look about me, and if things promise well I’ll call you.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“My fair sir, you flatter me,” cried the mayor.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The shepherd said: “If nothing more than that is needful in order to be mayor, I would get into the barrel at once.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

We are much beholden to you! cried the mayor But I cannot see, my lord, how, without a war-ship, you may venture against these men.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The peasant said: “They want to make me mayor, if I will but put myself in the barrel, but I will not do it.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)