municipality

Meaning

Noun

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

Origin

• Borrowed from French municipalité (Edmund Burke); synchronically analyzable as municipal + -ity.