municipality

/mjʊˌnɪsɪˈpælɪti/

municipality noun: a district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.

Noun

municipality (plural municipalities)

A district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.
- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced on May 29 that Louisville was one of more than 600 municipalities across the U.S. accused of obstructing immigration enforcement. The federal government called these locations “sanctuary jurisdictions,” alleging they were undermining the rule of...2025 July 22, Connor N. Smith, Mason Brighton, “Louisville drops sanctuary city status after DOJ pressure”, in Spectrum News, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2025
The governing body of such a district.
- 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.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
In the Philippines and in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries, second-level administrative divisions that may house one or more cities or towns whose head of government may be called mayors or, in Mexico, municipal presidents.

municipality meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

municipality in Hindi

a district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts: नगरपालिका nagarpālikā
the governing body of such a district: नगरपालिका nagarpālikā

municipality in Tamil

a district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts: நகராட்சி nakarāṭci
the governing body of such a district: நகராட்சி nakarāṭci

municipality in Urdu

a district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts: بلدیہ baldiya

municipality in Bengali

a district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts: পৌরসভা pōurśobha

More languagesFewer languages

municipality in Telugu: మునిసిపాలిటీ, మున్సిపాలిటీ
municipality in Malayalam: നഗരസഭ
municipality in Kannada: ಪೊಳಲು, ಪೊಳಲಾಳ್ವಿಕೆ, ಪೌರಸಂಸ್ಥೆ, ಪುರಸಭೆ
municipality in Punjabi: ਮਿਊਂਸਪੈਲਿਟੀ, ਮਿਊਂਸਪੈਲਟੀ
municipality in Gujarati: નગરપાલિકા nagarpālikā, નગર nagar
municipality in Tagalog: munisipalidad, bayan, munisipyo
municipality in Arabic: بَلَدِيَّة baladiyya
municipality in Persian: شهرداری šahrdâri
municipality in Thai: เทศบาล têet-sà-baan
municipality in Vietnamese: khu tự quản

Examples of municipality in a sentence

Currently, there are 15 subprovincial municipalities in the People's Republic of China.
The municipality of Uurainen is unilingually Finnish.
Municipal councils can decide and divide municipalities into smaller administrative units called elderships.

All 40 example sentences with municipality

Forms of municipality

plural	municipalities

Plural of municipality: municipalities

Origin of municipality

Borrowed from French municipalité (Edmund Burke), from municipal + -ité, from Latin municipalis, from municipium (“free city, township”), from municeps (“citizen of a free city or township”), from mūnus (“duty, service”) + -ceps (“taker, catcher”). Equivalent to municipal + -ity.

Words formed from municipality

Phrases with municipality

Questions about municipality

What does municipality mean?: Municipality means a district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.
What is municipality in Hindi?: Municipality in Hindi is नगरपालिका (nagarpālikā). See Municipality meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is municipality?: Municipality is a noun.
How do you pronounce municipality?: Municipality is pronounced /mjʊˌnɪsɪˈpælɪti/ (UK).
What is the plural of municipality?: The plural of municipality is municipalities.

Words near municipality in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: municipality (page history and authors); municipality (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); municipality (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); municipality (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); municipality (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); નગર (Gujarati) (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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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