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MAYORALTY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mayoralty mean?
• MAYORALTY (noun)
The noun MAYORALTY has 1 sense:
1. the position of mayor
Familiarity information: MAYORALTY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The position of mayor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("mayoralty" is a kind of...):
berth; billet; office; place; position; post; situation; spot (a job in an organization)
Context examples
Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune, and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to the king during his mayoralty.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
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