municipality

noun
/mjʊˌnɪsɪˈpælɪti/UK

Etymology

Borrowed from French municipalité (Edmund Burke), from municipal + -ité, from Latin municipalis, from municipium (“free city, township”), from municeps (“citizen of a free city or township”), from mūnus (“duty, service”) + -ceps (“taker, catcher”). Equivalent to municipal + -ity.

  1. derived from municipalis
  2. borrowed from municipalité

Definitions

  1. A district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts

    A district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.

  2. The governing body of such a district.

    • From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
  3. In the Philippines and in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries, second-level…

    In the Philippines and in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries, second-level administrative divisions that may house one or more cities or towns whose head of government may be called mayors or, in Mexico, municipal presidents.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA