mayor

English

Alternative forms

• mayour (obsolete)

Etymology

• 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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmeə(ɹ)/, /ˈmeɪə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -eə(ɹ), -eɪə(ɹ)
• (UK, Australia, New Zealand) Homophone: mare

Noun

mayor (plural mayors)

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.
2. (historical) The steward of some royal courts, particularly in early Medieval France

Synonyms

• burgomaster
• mayoress (female mayors only)

Derived terms

• mayoress

Translations

leader of a city

• Arabic: عمدة (ar) (3úmda) m
• Armenian: քաղաքապետ (hy) (k'aġak'apet)
• Breton: maer (br) m
• Bulgarian: кмет (bg) (kmet) m
• Catalan: alcalde (ca) m and f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: starosta (cs) m
• Danish: borgmester (da) c
• Dutch: burgemeester (nl) m
• Esperanto: urbestro (eo)
• Finnish: pormestari (fi), kaupunginjohtaja (fi), määri (fi)
• French: maire (fr) m, bourgmestre (fr) m (Belgium)
• Georgian: მერი (ka) (meri)
• German: Bürgermeister (de) m, Bürgermeisterin (de) f
• Greek: δήμαρχος (el) (dímarkhos) m
• Greenlandic: borgmesteri (kl)
• Hebrew: ראש עירייה (he) (rosh iriá) m, ראש עיר (he) (rosh ir) m
• Hindi: महापौर (hi) (mahāpaur) m
• Hungarian: polgármester (hu)
• Icelandic: (of a city) borgarstjóri (is) m, (of a town) bæjarstjóri (is) m
• Ido: urbestro (io)
• Indonesian: walikota (id)
• Interlingua: burgomaestro (ia)
• Irish: méara (ga) m
• Italian: sindaco (it) m, primo cittadino (it) m

• Japanese: 市長 (ja) (しちょう, shichō)
• Jèrriais: maire m
• Khmer: ចៅហ្វាយក្រុង (km) (chao vay krong)
• Korean: 시장 (ko) (sijang) (市長 (ko))
• Macedonian: градоначалник (mk) (gradonáčalnik) m
• Manx: meoir (gv) m
• Persian: شهردار (fa) (šahrdâr)
• Polish: burmistrz (pl) m (in small town), prezydent miasta m (in big city)
• Portuguese: prefeito (pt) m
• Romanian: primar (ro) m
• Russian: мэр (ru) (mer) m, градоначальник (ru) (gradonačál'nik) m (dated), бургомистр (ru) (burgomístr) m (of some foreign countries)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: градоначелник (sh) m, градоначелница (sh) f

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

• Spanish: alcalde (es) m, intendente (es) m (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay), regente (es) m (Mexico City), síndico (es) m (Dominican Republic)
• Swahili: diwani (sw)
• Swedish: borgmästare (sv) c
• Thai: นายกเทศมนตรี (th) (naayók tâytsàmondtree)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: мер (uk) (mer) m and f
• Vietnamese: thị trưởng (vi) (市長 (vi))
• Volapük: (male or female) sifal (vo), (male) hisifal (vo), (female) jisifal (vo)
• Welsh: maer (cy)

royal steward

• French: maire (fr)

• Welsh: maer (cy)

Anagrams

• Amory
• moray, Moray

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Asturian

Adjective

mayor (epicene, plural mayores)

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

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Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Latin maior - major.

Noun

mayor

1. major (military rank).

Declension

    declension of mayor

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

References

• Useinov & Mireev Dictionary, Simferopol, Dolya, 2002 [1]

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Papiamentu

Adjective

mayor

1. great, major

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin maior, maioris.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

mayor m and f (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.

Antonyms

• menor

Noun

mayor m (plural mayores)

1. major (military rank)