| 单词 | free city |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfree city free city n. [after German Freistadt (Middle High German fry stett)] (a) (now historical) (in Germany under the Holy Roman Empire) a sovereign city-state; (sometimes) spec. = imperial city n. (b) at imperial adj. and n. Compounds; (b) a semi-autonomous city under the authority of an international body. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > a or the state > [noun] > city state > types of metropolisa1568 free city1575 mother city1656 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > city > [noun] > sovereign or independent freedom1423 city1481 free city1575 imperial city1603 city republic1838 city-state1840 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > city > [noun] > semi-autonomous free city1575 1575 T. Cooper True & Perfect Copie Godly Serm. sig. Bv For who seeth not nowe yt the empire is almost nothinge, and consisteth onely of a fewe free Cityes in Germanye? 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 203 City of Erfurt..is a free City, but not an imperiall City; and paies some tribute to the Bishop of Metz, and to the Saxon Duke of Wineberg. 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius Ann. Low-Countrey-Warrs 265 Deventer, formerly a free City of the Anseatike League. 1849 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Apr. 297 The Hanseatic League and the Free cities of Germany outstood the numberless dynasties which attempted to override them. 1919 Times 14 Apr. 12/1 Danzig will be made a free city in a close Customs union with Poland. 1958 Listener 4 Dec. 936/1 A proposal that..the western sector [of Berlin] should be made a ‘free city’ with its own government. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. VI. 261 Less secure was the position of the ‘free cities’ whose autonomy was not protected by imperial privileges. Among them..were flourishing communities, such as Brunswick, Lüneburg, Magdeburg and Emden. < as lemmas |
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