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noun an urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government
noun people living in a town or city having local self-government
originBorrowed from French municipalité (Edmund Burke), from municipal + -ité, from Latin municipalis, from municipium (“free city, township”), from municeps (“citizen of a free city or township”), from mūnus (“duty, service”) + -ceps (“taker, catcher”). Equivalent to municipal + -ity.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0