municipality

English

Etymology

From French municipalité (Edmund Burke).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmjʊu.nɪs.ɪ.pæl.ɪt.i/

Noun

Wikipedia

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 distrcits

• Arabic: بَلَدِيَّة f ‎(baladiyya)
• Azeri: bələdiyyə
• Basque: udalerri (eu)
• Catalan: municipi (ca)
• 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)
• 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
• Italian: comune (it), municipalità (it)

• Japanese: 自治体 (ja) ‎(jichitai)
• Norman: meunicipalité f
• Khmer: ក្រុង (km) ‎(krong)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: شاره‌وانی ‎(shArawAni)

• Lithuanian: savivaldybė (lt) f
• Luxembourgish: Gemeng (lb) f, Municipalitéit f
• 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)
• Scots: municipality
• Serbo-Croatian: ȍpćina (sh) f
• Slovene: občina f
• Spanish: municipio (es)
• Swahili: manispaa
• Swedish: kommun (sv) c
• Turkish: belediye (tr)

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• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} Sveitarfélag

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Scots

Wikipedia ^sco

Etymology

From English municipality.

Noun

municipality ‎(plural municipalities)

1. municipality