municipality

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.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mjʊˌnɪsɪˈpælɪti/

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municipality (plural municipalities)

1. 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.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 22, in The Mirror and the Lamp‎:

     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. (politics) In Mexico and other 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.

Borrowed from English municipality.

municipality (plural municipalities)

1. municipality