citied

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adjective

Containing, or covered with, cities.

OriginEnglish city ← Middle English cite ← Old French citet →
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Meanings

adjectivecitied (comparative more citied, superlative most citied)

comparative more citied · superlative most citied

  1. Containing, or covered with, cities.

    Hast any mortal name, / Fit appellation for this dazzling frame? / Or friends or kinsfolk on the citied earth, / To share our marriage feast and nuptial mirth?

    1819, John Keats, “Lamia”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, part II, page 32

Origin

  1. Late Latincīvitātem (city)
  2. Old Frenchcitet
  3. Middle Englishcite
  4. Englishcity
  5. Englishcitied

From city + -ed.

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MLA

“citied.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/citied. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “citied,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/citied.

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