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Municipality

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.
  2. 2
    people living in a town or city having local self-government wordnet
  3. 3
    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."

  4. 4
    an urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government wordnet
  5. 5
    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.

Etymology

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.

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