mayor
pronunciation
How to pronounce mayor in British English:
UK [meə(r)]
How to pronounce mayor in American English:
US [ˈmeɪər]
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- Noun:
- the head of a city government
Word Origin
- mayor
- mayor: [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 was mair or mer, and mayor represents a partial return to the Latin form.=> major
- mayor (n.)
- c. 1300, from Old French maire "head of a city or town government" (13c.), originally "greater, superior" (adj.), from Latin maior, major, comparative of magnus "great" (see magnum).
Synonym
Example
- 1. And atlanta mayor kasim reed led his own team a few weeks ago .
- 2. Former mayor ken livingston famously commented in 2007 that heathrow was keeping its passengers " prisoners . "
- 3. After its 1978 default , cleveland 's change of mayor showed how this could work .
- 4. Alan brundrett , an insurance agent who serves as azle 's part-time mayor , has no doubt .
- 5. I came to detroit as a young reporter in 1984 , when coleman young was mayor .