municipality

Other forms of municipality

plural

municipalities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about municipality

What does municipality mean?

municipality means "an urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in municipality?

municipality has 6 syllables: mu-ni-ci-pal-i-ty. The stress falls on "pal". In IPA it is /ˌmjunɪsəˈpæləti/.

Is municipality a common word?

municipality is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.