city father 
noun
A person concerned with or experienced in the administration of a city: the city fathers decided to build a museum...
- No doubt his inclusion of the slogan of self-determination was designed to inveigle some voters in the municipality of which he is a city father.
- His party colleague, who was more of a firebrand leader, served three separate terms as city father from 1974 to '75, '79 to '81 and '92 to '94.
- Thanks to an infrastructure tax, city father foresight and the help of some influential friends, it has just opened a swimming and diving center that rivals the recreational water setting that surrounds it.
- at interest
- at intervals
- -ation
- at issue
- at it
- at its (or someone's) worst
- Ativan
- -ative
- Atkins diet
- Atkinson, Sir Harry
- ATL
- Atlanta
- Atlantan
- Atlantean
- atlantes
- Atlantic
- Atlantic, Battle of the
- Atlantic Charter
- Atlantic City
- Atlantic halibut
- Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway
- Atlanticism
- Atlanticist
- Atlantic Ocean
- Atlantic Provinces