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noun, feminine

cité

/si.te/

noun, feminine/si.te/plural: cités

city; citizenship; a fortified city, city-state, or historic city centre specifically; a municipality with city rather than town status; housing estate

obtenir la citéto obtain citizenship

Synonyms: ville, citoyenneté

Inherited from Middle French cité, from Old French citet, from older ciptet, from Late Latin cīvitātem (“city”).

cité — French Dictionary | Passage