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- adjective Without a city or cities.
Etymologies
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Examples
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However, like the traffic congestion of an "edge node" ( "cityless" cities, characterized less by residential feeling than the square-footage of leasable office space), the lack of planning has its daily consequences, and those consequences take their toll.
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I a queen, but now I am thy slave; once was I blest in my children, but now aged, and at the same time childless, cityless, destitute, the most miserable of mortals.
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides
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O all-wretched mistress, and yet still more wretched than I can express in words, thou art undone, and no longer beholdest the light, childless, husbandless, cityless, entirely destroyed.
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides
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You dogs and cats who live so far from us in a country where there are noisy cities cannot imagine the silence of a cityless country or a land where the only sounds are the crunching of one iceberg against another or the roar and thunder of a glacier as it falls to pieces when melted by the sun.
Billy Whiskers' Adventures Frances Trego Montgomery 1891
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Proudly his city shall stand; but a cityless outcast I rate
Oedipus Trilogy 495? BC-406 BC Sophocles 1879
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