city hall

See also: City Hall

English

Alternative forms

• city chambers (term used in Scotland)

New York City Hall

Even a village can have a city hall, as in Gilbert, Louisiana

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪti ˌhɔːl/, /ˈsɪtɪ ˌhɔːl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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

Noun

city hall (plural city halls)

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

   Alternative form: City Hall

   Near-synonym: town hall

   A new city hall was built after the big fire of 1883.

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

2. (figuratively, metonymic) The city government (city council, mayor, etc.); government in general.

   Alternative form: City Hall

   Near-synonym: town hall

   you can't fight city hall

   The company got tired of the red tape from city hall and began planning to relocate to another city.

Translations

building — see also town hall

• Afrikaans: stadsaal
• Arabic: بَلَدِيَّة f (baladiyya)
• Armenian: քաղաքապետարան (hy) (kʻaġakʻapetaran)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܹܝܬ ܡܕܝܼܢ݇ܬܵܐ m (bēt mdīta)
• Basque: udaletxe sg
• Bulgarian: кметство n (kmetstvo), община f (obština)
• Catalan: ajuntament (ca) m, casa de la vila f, casa consistorial f, casa de la ciutat f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大會堂 / 大会堂 (zh) (dàhuìtáng), 市政廳 / 市政厅 (zh) (shìzhèngtīng)

• Czech: radnice (cs) f
• Danish: rådhus (da) n
• Dutch: stadhuis (nl) n, raadhuis (nl) n
• Esperanto: urbdomo, urbodomo
• Estonian: vallamaja
• Finnish: kaupungintalo (fi)
• French: hôtel de ville (fr) m, mairie (fr) f, maison communale (fr) f
• Galician: casa do concello (gl) f
• German: Rathaus (de) n
• Greek: δημαρχείο (el) n (dimarcheío)
• Hebrew: בִּנְיַן עִירִיָּה m (binyán 'iriyá)
• Hungarian: városháza (hu)
• Icelandic: ráðhús n
• Irish: halla cathrach m
• Italian: municipio (it) m, comune (it) m
• Japanese: 市役所 (ja) (しやくしょ, shiyakusho)
• Khmer: សាលាក្រុង (sālā krong)
• Korean: 시청사 (sicheongsa)
• Kven: raatihuonet
• Macedonian: гра́дска ку́ќа f (grádska kúḱa), гра́дски дом m (grádski dom)
• Norwegian: rådhus (no) n
• Pannonian Rusyn: городска хижа f (horodska xiža)
• Plautdietsch: Stautshus n
• Polish: ratusz (pl) m, urząd miejski (pl) m, magistrat (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 (es) f, ayuntamiento (es) m, consistorio (es) m, casa consistorial f
• Swedish: rådhus (sv) n, stadshus (sv) n
• Tagalog: gusaling panlunsod, 7hol (slang)
• Turkish: belediye binası
• Ukrainian: ра́туша f (rátuša), ме́рія f (mérija)
• Vietnamese: tòa thị chính (vi), tòa thị chánh, tòa thị sảnh
• Volapük: konsälöp (vo)

government

• Basque: udal sg
• Catalan: ajuntament (ca) m, batllia (ca) f,, consistori m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 市政府 (zh) (shìzhèngfǔ)

• Czech: radnice (cs) f, magistrát m
• Danish: rådhus (da) n
• Dutch: raadhuis (nl) n, stadhuis (nl) n, gemeentehuis (nl) n
• Esperanto: urbreĝistaro
• Finnish: kaupunginhallitus (fi)
• French: mairie (fr) f
• Galician: concello (gl) m
• German: Rathaus (de) n
• Greek: δημαρχείο (el) n (dimarcheío)
• Italian: comune (it) m
• Korean: 시청 (ko) (sicheong)
• Macedonian: о́пштина f (ópština), гра́дска у́права f (grádska úprava), гра́дски со́вет f (grádski sóvet)
• Polish: ratusz (pl) m, urząd miasta (pl) m, magistrat (pl) m
• Portuguese: câmara municipal (pt) f (Portugal), prefeitura (pt) f (Brazil)
• Russian: муниципалите́т (ru) m (municipalitét), городско́й сове́т m (gorodskój sovét)
• Spanish: alcaldía (es) f, ayuntamiento (es), consistorio (es) m