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Mayor vs Duke - What's the difference?

mayor | duke |

As nouns the difference between mayor and duke

is that mayor is 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 while duke is the male ruler of a duchy (compare duchess).

As proper nouns the difference between mayor and duke

is that mayor is {{surname|from=Anglo-Norman} while Duke is the title of a duke.

As a verb duke is

to hit or beat with the fists.

mayor

English

Alternative forms

* mayour (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • * 2003 , Mary Ruwart, Healing our world in an age of aggression - Page 374
    • The Libertarian mayor of Big Water, Utah, recently slashed property taxes in half and even repealed his own salary!
  • * 2011 , Michael Ryan, The Heart's Location, p 32
    • To assist him in his task Paul was joined by Ron Adams, who had been a three-term Libertarian mayor in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
  • By restriction, a male municipal leader
  • (historical) The steward of some royal courts, particularly in early Medieval France

    • Synonyms

    * (l) * mayoress (female mayors only) * provost (Scotland)

    Hyponyms

    (municipal principal leader) * mayor , lord mayor (male mayor) * mayoress , lady mayor (female mayor)

    Derived terms

    * mayoress (female mayor) * lord mayor * lady mayor

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    duke

    English

    (wikipedia duke)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The male ruler of a duchy (compare duchess ).
  • A high title of nobility; the male holder of a dukedom.
  • A grand duke.
  • (slang, usually in plural) A fist.
    • Put up your dukes !
    This is thought to be derived from where Duke(s) of York = Fork. Fork is itself cockney slang for hand, and thus fist.

    Hypernyms

    * nobility

    Coordinate terms

    * prince, monarch, baron, count, countess, earl, marquess, marquis, viscount

    Derived terms

    * archduke * duke it out * dukedom * grand duke * put up one's dukes

    Related terms

    * ducal * duchess * duchy

    Verb

    (duk)
  • To hit or beat with the fists.
  • * {{quote-book, 2003, John A. Dinan, Private Eyes in the Comics, isbn=159393002X, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=7vvAzXjtBAcC&pg=PA65, page=65
    • , passage=It seems that PI Rainer was duked by his wife

    Derived terms

    * duke it out * duke it * duke out * duke up * duke in ----