From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Municipality \Mu*nic'i*pal"i*ty\, noun; pl. {Municipalities}. [Cf. F. municipalit['e].] A municipal district; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: an urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government
2: people living in a town or city having local self-government
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
44 Moby Thesaurus words for "municipality": Stadt, bailiwick, banlieue, boom town, borough, bourg, bureau, burg, burgh, city, commissariat, constablery, constablewick, constabulary, conurbation, department, district, exurb, exurbia, faubourg, ghost town, greater city, market town, megalopolis, metropolis, metropolitan area, ministry, office, outskirts, polis, secretariat, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shrievalty, spread city, suburb, suburbia, town, township, urban complex, urban sprawl, urbs, village, ville
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