city father

1. 1.

   an important municipal official

   Broaderofficial

Questions about city father

What does city father mean?

city father means "an important municipal official".

Is city father a common word?

city father is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.