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city hall

/ˈsɪti ˌhɔːl/US/ˈsɪti ˌhɔl/

city hall noun: the building that houses a city's government.

city hall: the building that houses a city's government
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Noun

city hall (plural city halls)

  1. The building that houses a city's government.
    • Near-synonym: town hall
    • A new city hall was built after the big fire of 1883.
    Synonyms:
    town hall
  2. (figuratively, metonymically) The city government (city council, mayor, etc.); government in general.
    • Near-synonym: town hall
    • you can't fight city hall
    Synonyms:
    town hall

Proper noun capitalized: City Hall

City Hall

  1. Any specific city hall, which in context (i.e., discussions within its city or about its city) is called by this name, written in capital letters.

city hall meaning in Tamil, Tagalog, Arabic and Vietnamese

city hall in Tamil

மாநகர் மன்றம்

city hall in Tagalog

building
gusaling panlunsod

city hall in Arabic

building
بَلَدِيَّة baladiyya

city hall in Vietnamese

building
tòa thị chính, tòa thị chánh, tòa thị sảnh

Examples of city hall in a sentence

  • The vice-mayor has an office on the third floor of city hall.
  • The company got tired of the red tape from city hall and began planning to relocate to another city.

Synonyms of city hall

Forms of city hall

pluralcity halls
alternative formcity chambers

Origin of city hall

By proprialization from city hall.

Words formed from city hall

Questions about city hall

What does city hall mean?
City hall means the building that houses a city's government.
What is city hall in Tamil?
City hall in Tamil is மாநகர் மன்றம். See City hall meaning in Tamil.
How do you use city hall in a sentence?
The vice-mayor has an office on the third floor of city hall.
What part of speech is city hall?
City hall can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce city hall?
City hall is pronounced /ˈsɪti ˌhɔːl/ (UK).
What is the plural of city hall?
The plural of city hall is city halls.

Words near city hall in the dictionary

  1. city fathers
  2. city gent
  3. city gents
  4. city girl
  5. city girls
  6. city hall
  7. city halls
  8. City High
  9. city killer
  10. city killers
  11. city lights

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: city hall (page history and authors); City Hall (page history and authors); city hall (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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