Mayor

Noun

 * 1) 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.

Synonyms

 * mayoress (female mayors only)
 * mayoress (female mayors only)

Derived terms

 * mayoress

Thesaurus
alderman, archon, bailie, burghermaster, burgomaster, cabinet member, cabinet minister, chancellor, city councilman, city father, city manager, commissar, commissioner, councillor, councilman, councilwoman, county commissioner, county supervisor, elder, headman, induna, legislator, lord mayor, magistrate, maire, minister, minister of state, portreeve, reeve, secretary, secretary of state, selectman, supervisor, syndic, undersecretary, warden

Etymology

 * (c. 1300) From maire: (13th century), from  maior:, comparative of magnus:.

Translations

 * Arabic: عمدة
 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: maer
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 市長, 市长
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek: δήμαρχος (dímarkhos)
 * Greenlandic: borgmesteri
 * Hebrew: ראש עירייה (rosh iriá) ,
 * Hindi: महापौर
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:


 * Indonesian: walikota
 * Interlingua: burgomaestro
 * Irish: méara
 * Italian:, primo cittadino
 * Japanese: 市長
 * Korean: 시장 (市長)
 * Macedonian: градоначалник
 * Manx: meoir
 * Persian: شهردار
 * Polish: burmistrz (in small town), prezydent miasta  (in big city)
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: мэр, градоначальник, бургомистр
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: градоначелник
 * Latin: gradonačelnik
 * Spanish: alcalde, intendente , regente  , síndico
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: borgmästare
 * Thai: นายกเทศมนตรี
 * Vietnamese: thị trưởng (市長)
 * Volapük: sifal,  hisifal,  jisifal

Anagrams

 * Amory
 * moray, Moray

Noun
mayor


 * 1) major  (military rank).

Etymology
maior - major.

Adjective

 * 1) great, major

Adjective

 * 1) bigger; comparative form of grande
 * 2) older; in this sense, comparative form of viejo, vieja
 * 3) wholesale

el mayor, la mayor , lo mayor
 * 1) Superlative forms of (1) and (2).  The biggest, the oldest.

Etymology
From maior, maioris.

Antonyms

 * menor