municipality

English

Etymology

Borrowing from French municipalité (Edmund Burke); synchronically analyzable as municipal +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mjʊˌnɪsɪˈpælɪti/

Noun

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.

Related terms

• municipal

Translations

a district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts

• Arabic: بَلَدِيَّة‎ f (baladiyya)
• Azeri: bələdiyyə
• Basque: udalerri (eu)
• Catalan: municipi (ca)
• Central Franconian: Jemeinde
• Central Mazahua: texjñiñi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 直轄市 (zh), 直辖市 (zh) (zhíxiáshì)

• Czech: obec (cs) f
• Danish: kommune (da) c
• Dutch: gemeente (nl)
• Extremaduran: monicípiu
• Faroese: kommuna f
• Finnish: kunta (fi)
• French: municipalité (fr)
• German: Gemeinde (de) f, Munizipalität (de) f
• Greek: δήμος (el) m (dímos)
• Icelandic: sveitarfélag
• Inari Sami: kieldâ
• Irish: bardasacht f, cathair bhardais f, baile bardais m
• Italian: comune (it), municipalità (it)
• Japanese: 自治体 (ja) (jichitai)
• Khmer: ក្រុង (km) (krong)

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: شاره‌وانی‎ (shArawAni)

• Lithuanian: savivaldybė (lt) f
• Luxembourgish: Gemeng (lb) f, Municipalitéit f
• Norman: meunicipalité f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kommune (no) m

  Nynorsk: kommune m

• Polish: gmina (pl) f
• Portuguese: município (pt) m, comuna (pt) f
• Romanian: municipalitate (ro) f
• Russian: муниципалите́т (ru) m (municipalitét), коммуна (ru) f (kommúna) (e.g. in Sweden)
• Scots: municipality
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: о̏пћина f

  Roman: ȍpćina (sh) f

• Slovene: občina f
• Southern Sami: tjïelte
• Spanish: municipio (es)
• Swahili: manispaa
• Swedish: kommun (sv) c
• Turkish: belediye (tr)

the governing body of such a district

• Irish: bardas m

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Translations to be checked

• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} Sveitarfélag

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Scots

Etymology

Borrowing from English municipality.

Noun

municipality (plural municipalities)

1. municipality