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A village with ambitions and a city with excuses.
means A populated place larger than a village but smaller and less self-important than a city.
from From Old English tun, originally an enclosure or fenced homestead, then a cluster of them, then a whole community worth a name.
Original senseTun meant a fence or enclosed yard.
Family tiesGerman Zaun, fence, shares the same root.
Size rulesTown versus city is legally arbitrary everywhere.