muni

M3U1N1I1

noun

A municipal bond.

“We usually play at a muni.”

Less commonFirst used 18th c.Scrabble 6

Meanings

muni1

nounmuni (plural munis)

plural munis

  1. colloquialbusinessA municipal bond.

    I invested half of my savings in a muni fund.

  2. colloquialA facility operated by a municipal government, such as a golf course or train line.

    We usually play at a muni.

  3. colloquialThe municipal government / municipality

muni2

nounmuni (plural munis)

plural munis

  1. JainismcolloquialBuddhismA holy man; a noble one; a sage or ascetic.First known use 18th c.

    Disguising himself, he ventured into the countryside, where he spied a muni meditating beneath a plane tree.

    1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XVII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 158

muni3

nounmuni (countable and uncountable, plural munis or muni's)

plural munis · plural muni's · alternative MUni

  1. abbreviationclippingcolloquialinformaluncountablecyclingClipping of municycling.

    Ok well i figured i'd go ahead and add to my KH collection and add a kh24 along side my kh20. ¶ So, now this is mainly gonna be used for muni, like riding on some trails and what not.

    2006 June 4, j5isalive, “About to go buy a KH24...”, in rec.sport.unicycling (Usenet)
  2. abbreviationclippingcolloquialcountableinformalcyclingClipping of municycle.
verbmuni (third-person singular simple present munis or muni's, present participle muni'ing, simple past and past participle muni'd or muni'ed)

present singular third person munis · present singular third person muni's · participle present muni'ing · participle past muni'd · past muni'd · participle past muni'ed · past muni'ed · alternative MUni

  1. abbreviationclippingcolloquialinformalintransitivecyclingClipping of municycle.

    This'll be my first time to muni at a MTB event (I've raced on my b*ke at such things), so we'll see how things go.

    2006 April 27, pkittle, “Muni Race April 29 (Northern California)”, in rec.sport.unicycling (Usenet)
    1 more example

    What happens is that everyone who munis more than a tiny bit naturally gets better and starts hucking larger stuff. In the end, after upgrading everything that broke, they've spent more than they would have buying a solid Muni in the first place.

    2006 May 5, vivalargo, “Re: Which 24" Rim for MUni??”, in rec.sport.unicycling (Usenet)

Synonyms & antonyms

Origin

muni · noun

  1. Sanskritमुनि
  2. Englishmuni

Borrowed from Sanskrit मुनि (muni).

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Cite this entry
APA

muni. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/muni

MLA

“muni.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/muni. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “muni,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/muni.

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