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Mayor vs Gelding - What's the difference?

mayor | gelding |

As nouns the difference between mayor and gelding

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 gelding is a castrated male horse.

As a proper noun Mayor

is {{surname|from=Anglo-Norman}.

As a verb gelding is

present participle of lang=en.

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    • The Libertarian mayor of Big Water, Utah, recently slashed property taxes in half and even repealed his own salary!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

    * * ----

    gelding

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a castrated male horse
  • any castrated male animal
  • (archaic) a eunuch
  • * Wyclif Bible, Acts viii. 38
    • They went down both into the water, Philip and the gelding , and Philip baptized him.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

    *