Mother City

noun

1. an informal name for Cape Town

Example Sentences

The furthest and the chiefest of my few jaunts abroad was to the mother-city of the mother-state—Sydney.

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However, he felt himself drawn to Wittenberg, the mother-city of the Reformation.

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The word seems to be used to denote a mother-city or district capital, on which other places were depending.

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Between this harbour and the mother city a third town sprang up, and was called Cæsarea.

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Load me down, Now that you know me man, and not the thrall Of vilest fear that buys suspected breath With a mother-city's doom.

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