city hall

English

Alternative forms

• City Hall
• city chambers (term used in Scotland)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪti ˌhɔːl/, /ˈsɪtɪ ˌhɔːl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪti ˌhɔl/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪti ˌhɑl/

Noun

city hall (plural city halls)

New York City Hall

1. The building that houses a city's government.

   The vice-mayor has an office on the third floor of city hall.

2. (figurative, metonymically) The city government; government in general.

   You can't fight city hall.

Synonyms

• See town hall

Translations

building

• Afrikaans: stadsaal
• Arabic: بَلَدِيَّة‎ f (baladiyya)
• Armenian: քաղաքապետարան (hy) (kʿałakʿapetaran)
• Catalan: ajuntament (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大會堂, 大会堂 (dàhuìtáng)

• Czech: radnice (cs) f
• Danish: rådhus (da) n
• Dutch: stadhuis (nl) n, raadhuis (nl) n
• Esperanto: urbdomo
• Finnish: kaupungintalo (fi)
• French: hôtel de ville (fr) m, mairie (fr) f
• German: Rathaus (de) n
• Greek: δημαρχείο (el) n (dimarcheío)
• Hungarian: városháza (hu)
• Icelandic: ráðhús n
• Italian: municipio (it)
• Japanese: 市役所 (しやくしょ, shiyakusho)

• Khmer: សាលាក្រុង (sālā krong)
• Korean: 시청사 (sicheongsa)
• Macedonian: гра́дска ку́ќа f (grádska kúḱa), гра́дски дом m (grádski dom)
• Norwegian: rådhus (no) n
• Plautdietsch: Stautshus n
• Polish: ratusz (pl) m
• Portuguese: câmara municipal (pt) f (Portugal), prefeitura (pt) f (Brazil)
• Romanian: primărie (ro) f
• Russian: зда́ние муниципалите́та n (zdánije municipalitéta), ра́туша (ru) f (rátuša)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: већница f

  Roman: većnica f

• Spanish: alcaldía f, ayuntamiento (es) m
• Swedish: rådhus (sv) n, stadshus (sv) n
• Tagalog: gusaling panlunsod
• Ukrainian: ра́туша f (rátuša), ме́рія f (mérija)
• Vietnamese: tòa thị chính, tòa thị chánh, tòa thị sảnh
• Volapük: konsälöp (vo)

government

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 市政府 (zh) (shìzhèngfǔ)

• Czech: radnice (cs) f, magistrát m
• Danish: rådhus (da) n
• Esperanto: urbreĝistaro
• Finnish: kaupunginhallitus (fi)

• German: Rathaus (de) n
• Korean: 시청 (ko) (sicheong)
• Macedonian: о́пштина f (ópština), гра́дска у́права f (grádska úprava), гра́дски со́вет f (grádski sóvet)
• Portuguese: câmara municipal (pt) f (Portugal), prefeitura (pt) f (Brazil)
• Russian: муниципалите́т (ru) m (municipalitét), городско́й сове́т m (gorodskój sovét)
• Spanish: alcaldía f, ayuntamiento (es)