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Plural of municipality

regular plural

The plural of municipality is municipalities.

Forms of municipality

Singularmunicipality /mjʊˌnɪsɪˈpælɪti/
Pluralmunicipalities
Countablecountable

Municipalities in a sentence

  • 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.2025 July 22, Connor N. Smith, Mason Brighton, “Louisville drops sanctuary city status after DOJ pressure”, in Spectrum News, archived from...
  • Currently, there are 15 subprovincial municipalities in the People's Republic of China.From the entry subprovincial
  • Municipal councils can decide and divide municipalities into smaller administrative units called elderships.2023 February, Katarína Vitálišová, Jaroslav Dvořák, “Differences and Similarities in Local Participative Governance in Slovakia and…. From the entry eldership
  • At present, Kashih region's 12 counties and municipalities have basically consolidated their militia organizations.[1972 December 27 [1972 December 19], “Party, PLA Strengthen Sinkiang Militia-Building Work”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China…. From the entry Ch'ieh-shih
  • Based in Metro Vancouver, Chalifoux Indigenizes plant spaces by including native plants when consulting for landscape architects, municipalities, and organizations.2025 November 13, “Indigenizing B.C.’s green spaces”, in CBC.ca. From the entry St̓át̓imc

Meaning of municipality

  1. noun A district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.
  2. noun The governing body of such a district.
  3. noun 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.

Full definition of municipality

Questions about the plural of municipality

What is the plural of municipality?
The plural of municipality is municipalities.
Is municipality countable?
Municipality is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: municipality (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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