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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun municipality has 2 senses
- municipality(n = noun.location) Array - an urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government; Array is a kind of administrative district, administrative division, territorial division, populated area, urban area
- municipality(n = noun.group) Array - people living in a town or city having local self-government; Array is a kind of assemblage, gathering
has particulars: city, metropolis, urban center, town
has parts: ward
Derived forms adjective municipal2, adjective municipal1
has particulars: city, metropolis, town, townsfolk, townspeople
CIDE DICTIONARY
municipality, n. [Cf. F. municipalité.].
A municipal district; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
municipality, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a town or district having local government.
2 the governing body of this area.
1 a town or district having local government.
2 the governing body of this area.
Etymology
F municipalit{eacute} f. municipal (as MUNICIPAL)
THESAURUS
municipality
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, villeROGET THESAURUS
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Jurisdiction
N jurisdiction, judicature, administration of justice, soc, executive, commission of the peace, magistracy, judge, tribunal, municipality, corporation, bailiwick, shrievalty, lord lieutenant, sheriff, shire reeve, shrieve, constable, selectman, police, police force, the fuzz, constabulary, bumbledom, gendarmerie, officer, bailiff, tipstaff, bum-bailiff, catchpoll, beadle, policeman, cop, police constable, police sergeant, sbirro, alguazil, gendarme, kavass, lictor, mace bearer, huissier, bedel, tithingman, press gang, exciseman, gauger, gager, customhouse officer, douanier, coroner, edile, aedile, portreeve, paritor, posse comitatus, bureau, cutcherry, department, secretariat, long arm of the law, extradition, executive, administrative, municipal, inquisitorial, causidical, judicatory, judiciary, judicial, juridical, coram judice.
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