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Etymology

Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#MUNICIPALITY Category:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *keh₂p-#MUNICIPALITY

Borrowed from French Category:English terms borrowed from French#MUNICIPALITY Category:English terms derived from French#MUNICIPALITY municipalité (Edmund Burke), from municipal + -ité, from Latin Category:English terms derived from Latin#MUNICIPALITY municipalis, from municipium (“free city, township”), from municeps (“citizen of a free city or township”), from mūnus (“duty, service”)Category:Latin links with redundant target parameters#MUNICIPALITY + -ceps (“taker, catcher”). Equivalent to municipal +‎ -ityCategory:English terms suffixed with -ity#MUNICIPALITY.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /mjʊˌnɪsɪˈpælɪti/Category:English 6-syllable words#MUNICIPALITY Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#MUNICIPALITY
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Noun

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municipality

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municipality (plural municipalities)Category:English lemmas#MUNICIPALITY Category:English nouns#MUNICIPALITY Category:English countable nouns#MUNICIPALITY Category:English entries with incorrect language header#MUNICIPALITY Category:Pages with entries#MUNICIPALITY Category:Pages with 2 entries#MUNICIPALITY

A district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.
- 2025 July 22, Connor N. Smith, Mason Brighton, “Louisville drops sanctuary city status after DOJ pressure”, in Spectrum News‎, archived from the original on 20 August 2025:
  The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced on May 29 that Louisville was one of more than 600 municipalities across the U.S. accused of obstructing immigration enforcement. The federal government called these locations “sanctuary jurisdictions,” alleging they were undermining the rule of law. Four Kentucky counties also made the list: Campbell, Franklin, Jefferson and Scott.
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The governing body of such a district.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
  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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(politics Category:en:Politics#MUNICIPALITY) 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.