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Municipality definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MUNICIPAL'ITY, n. In France, a certain district or division of the country; also, its inhabitants.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government
2: people living in a town or city having local self-government

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -ties) Date: 1790 1. a primarily urban political unit having corporate status and usually powers of self-government 2. the governing body of a municipality

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 a town or district having local government. 2 the governing body of this area. Etymology: F municipalité f. municipal (as MUNICIPAL)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Municipality Mu*nic`i*pal"i*ty, n.; pl. Municipalities. [Cf. F. municipalit['e].] A municipal district; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(municipalities) 1. In Britain, a municipality is a city or town which is governed by its own locally-appointed officials. You can also refer to a city's or town's local government as a municipality. N-COUNT 2. In the United States, a municipality is a city or town that is incorporated and can elect its own government, which is also called a municipality. N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

Stadt, bailiwick, banlieue, boom town, borough, bourg, bureau, burg, burgh, city, commissariat, constablery, constablewick, constabulary, conurbation, department, district, exurb, exurbia, faubourg, ghost town, greater city, market town, megalopolis, metropolis, metropolitan area, ministry, office, outskirts, polis, secretariat, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shrievalty, spread city, suburb, suburbia, town, township, urban complex, urban sprawl, urbs, village, ville