municipality
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French municipalité (Edmund Burke); synchronically analyzable as municipal + -ity.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
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.
- 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[edit]
Translations[edit]
a district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts
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the governing body of such a district
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Scots[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English municipality.
Noun[edit]
municipality (plural municipalities)
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