Search Result for "municipal":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. relating or belonging to or characteristic of a municipality;
- Example: "municipal government"
- Example: "municipal bonds"
- Example: "a municipal park"
- Example: "municipal transportation"
2. of or relating to the government of a municipality;
- Example: "international law...only authorizes a belligerent to punish a spy under its municipal law"- J.L.kuntz
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Municipal \Mu*nic"i*pal\, a. [L. municipalis, fr. municipium a town, particularly in Italy, which possessed the right of Roman citizenship, but was governed by its own laws, a free town, fr. municeps an inhabitant of a free town, a free citizen; munia official duties, functions + capere to take: cf. F. municipal. Cf. Immunity, and Capacoius.] 1. Of or pertaining to a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government; as, municipal rights; municipal officers. [1913 Webster] 2. Of or pertaining to a state, kingdom, or nation. [1913 Webster] Municipal law is properly defined to be a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
24 Moby Thesaurus words for "municipal": borough, burghal, citified, city, civic, civil, council, downtown, home, inland, internal, interurban, intestine, metropolitan, midtown, national, native, oppidan, parish, suburban, town, uptown, urban, village
