Definition of city father
: a member (such as an alderman or councilman) of the governing body of a city
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In all, around $500,000 was raised for needy islanders and Coppini was summoned to Galveston to show his artwork to the city fathers.
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In fact, when the Richmond and Sunset districts were being developed from a waste of sand dunes, the city fathers wanted to name the avenues that ran west to the ocean after Spanish saints.
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The city fathers, however, soon threw caution to the wind.
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In the early stages, the city fathers were skeptical of 9-1-1 calls being answered at the police station.
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While Europe was Balkanizing, the city fathers were amalgamating what become the five boroughs into Greater New York.
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Lambert came out of retirement in the Great Depression at the request of the Boston city fathers to save the Gillette Safety Razor Company from bankruptcy.
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First Known Use of city father
1834
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: someone who works for a city government
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