Meanings
- not comparableOf or pertaining to a municipality (a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government).
More than 100 provincial and municipal firefighters were brought in, with helicopters and aircraft used to drop water and fire retardant, while bulldozers were digging firebreaks.
2016 May 4, Nicky Woolf, “Fort McMurray: Canada wildfires force evacuation of oil sands city”, in The Guardian
plural municipals
- businessA financial instrument issued by a municipality (e.g., municipal bonds).
“This might be the last great opportunity for preretirement baby boomers to buy municipals at such attractive levels,” said Janet Fiorenza, head of municipal fixed income at Lehman Brothers Asset Management.
2008 April 21, Julie Connelly, “Muni Bonds, Safe With High Yields”, in New York Times
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveof or relating to the government of a municipality
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinmūnicipālis“of or belonging to a citizen or a free town”
- Frenchmunicipal
- Englishmunicipal
Borrowed from French municipal, from Latin mūnicipālis (“of or belonging to a citizen or a free town”), from mūniceps (“a citizen, an inhabitant of a free town”), from mūnus (“duty”) + capiō (“to take”).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic مَدَنِيّ
- مَدَنِيّ (madaniyy)pertaining to city
Bulgarian гра́дски, муниципа́лен
- гра́дски (grádski)pertaining to city
- муниципа́лен (municipálen)pertaining to city
Catalan municipal
- municipalpertaining to city
Chinese Mandarin 城市的, 市立
- 城市的 (chéngshì de)pertaining to city
- 市立 (shìlì)pertaining to city
Czech městský
- městskýpertaining to city
Dutch gemeentelijk
- gemeentelijkpertaining to city
Esperanto municipa
- municipapertaining to city
Finnish kunnallinen, kunnan
- kunnallinenpertaining to city
- kunnanpertaining to city
French municipal
- municipalpertaining to city
German munizipal, Stadt-
- munizipalpertaining to city
- Stadt-pertaining to city
Hindi नगरीय
- नगरीय (nagrīya)pertaining to city
Hungarian községi, városi
- községipertaining to city
- városipertaining to city
Icelandic borgar-, bæjar-
- borgar-pertaining to city
- bæjar-pertaining to city
- sveitar-pertaining to city
Irish bardasach
- bardasachpertaining to city
Italian civico, comunale
- civicopertaining to city
- comunalepertaining to city
Japanese 市立, 都市の
- 市立 (shiritsu)pertaining to city
- 都市の (toshi no)pertaining to city
Korean 시립의, 도시의
- 시립의 (siribui)pertaining to city
- 도시의 (dosiui)pertaining to city
Latin mūnicipālis
- mūnicipālispertaining to city
Malay perbandaran
- perbandaranpertaining to city
Norwegian kommunal, kommune-
- kommunalpertaining to city
- kommune-pertaining to city
Persian شهری
- شهری (šahri)pertaining to city
Polish miejski, municypalny
- miejskipertaining to city
- municypalnypertaining to city
- stanowypertaining to state
Portuguese municipal
- municipalpertaining to city
Punjabi ਨਾਗਰਿਕ
- ਨਾਗਰਿਕ (nāgrik)pertaining to city
Romanian municipal
- municipalpertaining to city
Russian городско́й, муниципа́льный
- городско́й (gorodskój)pertaining to city
- муниципа́льный (municipálʹnyj)pertaining to city
Slovak mestský
- mestskýpertaining to city
Spanish municipal
- municipalpertaining to city
Swedish kommun-
- kommun-pertaining to city
Ukrainian міськи́й, муніципа́льний
- міськи́й (misʹkýj)pertaining to city
- муніципа́льний (municypálʹnyj)pertaining to city
Cite this entry
municipal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/municipal
“municipal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/municipal. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “municipal,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/municipal.
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