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MUNICIPALITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
People living in a town or city having local self-government
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("municipality" is a kind of...):
assemblage; gathering (a group of persons together in one place)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "municipality"):
city; metropolis (people living in a large densely populated municipality)
town; townsfolk; townspeople (the people living in a municipality smaller than a city)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("municipality" is a kind of...):
administrative district; administrative division; territorial division (a district defined for administrative purposes)
populated area; urban area (a geographical area constituting a city or town)
Meronyms (parts of "municipality"):
ward (a district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "municipality"):
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
Derivation:
municipal (of or relating to the government of a municipality)
municipal (relating or belonging to or characteristic of a municipality)
