English Online Dictionary. What means municipality? What does municipality mean?
English
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.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /mjʊˌnɪsɪˈpælɪti/
Noun
municipality (plural municipalities)
- A district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.
- The governing body of such a district.
- (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.
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Scots
Etymology
Borrowed from English municipality.
Noun
municipality (plural municipalities)
- municipality