Associations to the word «Municipality»

Wiktionary

MUNICIPALITY, noun. A district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.
MUNICIPALITY, noun. The governing body of such a district.

Dictionary definition

MUNICIPALITY, noun. An urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government.
MUNICIPALITY, noun. People living in a town or city having local self-government.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats