Extending across or affecting an entire city; something that happens or applies throughout a whole city.
Compound of 'city' (from Old French 'cité,' from Latin 'civitas') and 'wide' (Old English 'wīd'). This compound structure became productive in the 20th century.
The '-wide' suffix became a word-building machine in modern English—we have 'worldwide,' 'nationwide,' 'statewide,' 'countywide'—all using the same pattern to scale up from small to large!
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