Municipality

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈmjÊŠu.nɪs.ɪ.pæl.It.ɪi/

Origin

From French municipalité (Edmund Burke).

Noun

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, The Mirror and the Lamp Chapter 22, 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