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Webster 1913 Edition


Municipality

Mu-nicˊi-pal′i-ty

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Noun.
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pl.
Municipalities
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[Cf. F.
municipalité
.]
A municipal district; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.

Webster 1828 Edition


Municipality

MUNICIPAL'ITY

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Noun.
In France, a certain district or division of the country; also, its inhabitants.

Definition 2024


municipality

municipality

English

Noun

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.

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Scots

Etymology

From English municipality.

Noun

municipality (plural municipalities)

  1. municipality