Usually means: Elected head of municipal government.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. mayor: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mayor: Merriam-Webster
  3. mayor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mayor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mayor: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mayor: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mayor, mayor: Wordnik
  8. mayor: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Mayor, mayor: Wiktionary
  10. mayor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mayor: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mayor: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. mayor: Dictionary.com
  14. mayor: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. mayor: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Mayor (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Mayor (France), Mayor (Netherlands), Mayor (Switzerland), Mayor (disambiguation), Mayor (musical), Mayor (surname), Mayor (the Netherlands), Mayor, The Mayor (TV series), The Mayor (The PowerPuff Girls), The Mayor (disambiguation): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Mayor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. mayor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. mayor: Rhymezone
  20. mayor, mayor: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. mayor: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Mayor: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. mayor: FreeDictionary.org
  24. mayor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. mayor: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. mayor: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. The Mayor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. mayor: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Mayor: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mayor: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mayor, the mayor: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mayor: Latitude Mexico

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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The chief executive of the municipal government of a city, borough, etc., formerly (historical) usually appointed as a caretaker by European royal courts but now usually appointed or elected locally.
noun:  (historical) Synonym of mair, various former officials in the Kingdom of Scotland.
noun:  (Ireland, rare, obsolete) A member of a city council.
noun:  (historical, obsolete) A high justice, an important judge.
noun:  (chiefly US) A largely ceremonial position in some municipal governments that presides over the city council while a contracted city manager holds actual executive power.
noun:  (figurative, humorous) A local VIP, a muckamuck or big shot reckoned to lead some local group.
noun:  A surname from Anglo-Norman.
noun:  (historical) Short for mayor of the palace, the royal stewards of the Frankish Empire. [(historical) In the Merovingian kingdoms, the king’s steward and, by the 7th century, de facto regent.]

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