mayor

See also: Mayor

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EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• mayour (obsolete)

EtymologyEdit

• Circa 1300 from Old French maire (“head of a city or town government”) (13th century), from Latin maior (“bigger, greater, superior”), comparative of magnus (“big, great”). Doublet with major.

PronunciationEdit

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪ.ɚ/, /ˈmɛɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪ.ə/, /ˈmɛə/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ), -eɪə(ɹ)
• Homophone: mare (one pronunciation)

NounEdit

mayor (plural mayors, feminine mayoress)

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.
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     The Libertarian mayor of Big Water, Utah, recently slashed property taxes in half and even repealed his own salary!

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     To assist him in his task Paul was joined by Ron Adams, who had been a three-term Libertarian mayor in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

2. By restriction, a male municipal leader
3. (historical) The steward of some royal courts, particularly in early Medieval France

SynonymsEdit

• (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

HyponymsEdit

(municipal principal leader):

• mayor, lord mayor (male mayor)
• mayoress, lady mayor (female mayor)

Derived termsEdit

• mayor of the palace
• mayoress (female mayor)
• lord mayor
• lady mayor

TranslationsEdit

leader of a city

• Arabic: عُمْدَة m (ʿumda)
• Armenian: քաղաքապետ (hy) (kʿałakʿapet)
• Basque: alkate, auzapez
• Bavarian: Buagamasta
• Breton: maer (br) m
• Bulgarian: кмет (bg) m (kmet)
• Catalan: alcalde m, alcaldessa f, batlle (ca) m, batllessa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 市長 (zh), 市长 (zh) (shìzhǎng)

• Czech: starosta (cs) m
• Danish: borgmester c, borgmesterinde c
• Dutch: burgemeester (nl) m
• Erzya: ошазор (ošazor)
• Esperanto: urbestro
• Estonian: linnapea (et)
• Finnish: pormestari (fi), kaupunginjohtaja (fi), määri
• French: maire (fr) m, mairesse (fr) f, bourgmestre (fr) m, f (Belgium)
• Galician: alcalde m, alcaldesa f
• Georgian: მერი (meri)
• German: Bürgermeister (de) m, Bürgermeisterin (de) f
• Greek: δήμαρχος (el) m, f (dímarchos), δημαρχίνα (el) f (dimarchína) (colloquial)
• Greenlandic: borgmesteri
• Hebrew: ראש עירייה m (rosh iriyá), ראש עיר (he) m (rosh ir)
• Hindi: महापौर m (mahāpaur)
• Hungarian: polgármester (hu)
• Icelandic: (of a city) borgarstjóri m, (of a town) bæjarstjóri m
• Ido: urbestro (io)
• Indonesian: wali kota (id)
• Interlingua: burgomaestro
• Irish: méara (ga) m
• Italian: sindaco (it) m, sindaca (it) f, primo cittadino (it) m, prima cittadina f
• Japanese: 市長 (ja) (しちょう, shichō)
• Khmer: ចៅហ្វាយក្រុង (chao vay krong)
• Korean: 시장 (ko) (sijang) (市長 (ko))

• Latvian: mērs m
• Lithuanian: meras m
• Macedonian: градоначалник m (gradonáčalnik)
• Malay: datuk bandar
• Manx: meoir m
• Maori: mea
• Mongolian: хотын дарга (hotyn darga)
• Norman: maire m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: borgermester m, borgermesterinne f, ordfører m, ordførerinne f

  Nynorsk: borgarmeister m, ordførar m, ordførarinne f

• Persian: شهردار (fa) (šahrdâr)
• Polish: burmistrz (pl) m (in small town), prezydent miasta m (in big city)
• Portuguese: prefeito (pt) m, prefeita f
• Romanian: primar (ro) m, primăreasă (ro) f, primăriță (ro) f
• Russian: мэр (ru) m (mɛr), градонача́льник (ru) m (gradonačálʹnik) (dated), бургоми́стр (ru) m (burgomístr) (of some foreign countries)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: градоначелник m, градоначелница f

  Roman: gradonačelnik (sh) m, gradonačelnica (sh) f

• Slovak: starosta m
• Slovene: župan (sl) m, županja f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: šołta m, šołtowka f

• Spanish: alcalde (es) m, alcaldesa (es) f, intendente (es) m, f (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay), presidente municipal m, f (Mexico), regente (es) m, f (Mexico City), síndico (es) m (Dominican Republic), síndica f (Dominican Republic)
• Swahili: meya (sw)
• Swedish: borgmästare (sv) c, borgmästarinna c
• Thai: นายกเทศมนตรี (naayók tâytsàmondtree)
• Turkish: belediye başkanı (tr)
• Ukrainian: мер m, f (mer)
• Urdu: مہاپور m (mahāpaur)
• Vietnamese: thị trưởng (vi) (市長)
• Volapük: (♂♀) sifal (vo), (♂) hisifal, (♀) jisifal
• Welsh: maer (cy) m

royal steward

• French: maire (fr)

• Welsh: maer (cy)

AnagramsEdit

• Amory
• moray, Moray

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AsturianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin māior, māiōris.

AdjectiveEdit

mayor (epicene, plural mayores)

1. old
2. older
3. (music) major

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Crimean TatarEdit

EtymologyEdit

Latin maior - major.

NounEdit

mayor

1. major (military rank).

DeclensionEdit

Declension of mayor

nominative	mayor
genitive	mayornıñ
dative	mayorğa
accusative	mayornı
locative	mayorda
ablative	mayordan

ReferencesEdit

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, ISBN 966-7980-89-8

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IndonesianEdit

NounEdit

mayor

1. major (military rank in Indonesian Army)
2. lieutenant commander (military rank in Indonesian Navy)
3. squadron leader (military rank in Indonesian Air Force)

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PapiamentuEdit

AdjectiveEdit

mayor

1. great, major

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PortugueseEdit

AdjectiveEdit

mayor m, f (plural mayores, comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of maior

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SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin māior, māiōris.

PronunciationEdit

• (Castilian) and (Latin America) IPA^(key): /maˈʝor/
• (Rioplatense) IPA^(key): /maˈʒor/

• Audio (Bolivia)

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AdjectiveEdit

mayor (plural mayores)

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

el mayor m, la mayor f, lo mayor n

1. superlative forms of (1) and (2); the biggest, the oldest

AntonymsEdit

• menor

NounEdit

mayor m (plural mayores)

1. major (military rank)
2. (literary, in the plural) ancestors

mayor f (plural mayores)

1. (nautical) mainsail