What does municipality mean?
Word: Municipality
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Municipality means a town or city that has its own local government, or the local body that runs it, looking after things like roads, water and rubbish.
Synonyms: corporation, borough
How do you spell municipality?
Syllables: mu - nic - i - pal - i - ty
Tricky part: The c is soft and said like s, but it is written c: students write munisipality.
Watch out for: munisipality, municipalaty, municipalety
Memory tip: A municipality runs a city, and the c in the middle sounds just like the soft c of city.
Municipality in a sentence
Example 1: The municipality sent a truck to clear the rubbish after the street fair.
Example 2: Our new park was built by the municipality on an empty plot behind the market.
Example 3: Each municipality in the state collects its own property tax.
Fun Fact
The word comes from the Latin municipium, the name for a town in the Roman world whose people shared some of the rights of Roman citizens.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Only one of these words is spelt correctly. Choose its meaning:
1. parliment 2. drainege 3. sanitasion 4. municipality
a) a system of pipes that carries waste water away
b) a town or city body that runs local services
c) keeping places clean and free from germs
d) the body that makes a country's laws
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b) a town or city body that runs local services. Sanitasion uses s where t belongs, parliment is short of an a, and drainege has e where a belongs; only municipality is right.
Word Cookie
Fill in the missing letters to complete the word:
mun_c_p_lity
a) i, a, a
b) i, i, a
c) e, i, a
d) i, i, i
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b) i, i, a. Two i's come before the p, and pal keeps its a, just as in principal.
Mingle-Mangle
Unjumble the letters in the sentence to form a meaningful word:
The pmiinutlyaic collects property tax and keeps the streets clean.
a) punctuality
b) municipality
c) musicality
d) multiplicity
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b) municipality. Multiplicity needs two l's, punctuality two u's and musicality an s; the jumble has one l, one u and no s.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word municipality as used in the sentence:
The municipality has planted neem trees along the main road.
a) canteen
b) college
c) council
d) campus
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c) council. The local council runs the town and plants its trees, which is what the municipality does here.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. A municipality would usually ____.
a) print bank notes
b) run the railways
c) make national laws
d) repair city drains
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d) repair city drains
2. In many countries, a municipality is most likely to issue ____.
a) a bank loan
b) a school exam result
c) a passport
d) a birth certificate
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d) a birth certificate
