Word Meanings - MUNICIPALITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A municipal district; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.

Related words: (words related to MUNICIPALITY)

• VILLAGERY
  Villages; a district of villages. "The maidens of the villagery." Shak.
• BOROUGH
  burh, burg; akin to Icel., Sw., & Dan. borg, OS. & D. burg, OHG. puruc, purc, MHG. burc, G. burg, Goth. baúrgs; and from the root of AS. beorgan to hide, save, defend, G. bergen; or perh. from that of AS. beorg hill, mountain. Bury, v. t., and
• MUNICIPALLY
  In a municipal relation or condition.
• DISTRICT
  Rigorous; stringent; harsh. Punishing with the rod of district severity. Foxe.
• INCORPORATED
  United in one body; formed into a corporation; made a legal entity.
• BOROUGHHEAD
  See HEADBOROUGH
• MUNICIPALISM
  Municipal condition.
• BOROUGHMONGERING; BOROUGHMONGERY
  The practices of a boroughmonger.
• INCORPORATE
  1. Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual. Moses forbore to speak of angles, and things invisible, and incorporate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation; as, an incorporate banking
• MUNICIPALIZE
  To bring under municipal oversight or control; as, a municipalized industry. London people are now determined to centralize and to municipalize such services. The Century.
• VILLAGER
  An inhabitant of a village. Brutus had rather be a villager Than to repute himself a son of Rome Under these hard condition. Shak.
• BOROUGHHOLDER
  A headborough; a borsholder.
• DISTRICTION
  Sudden display; flash; glitter. A smile . . . breaks out with the brightest distriction. Collier.
• INCORPORATIVE
  Incorporating or tending to incorporate; as, the incorporative languages which run a whole phrase into one word. History demonstrates that incorporative unions are solid and permanent; but that a federal union is weak. W. Belsham.
• BOROUGH-ENGLISH
  A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother. Blackstone.
• INCORPORATION
  1. The act of incorporating, or the state of being incorporated. 2. The union of different ingredients in one mass; mixture; combination; synthesis. 3. The union of something with a body already existing; association; intimate union; assimilation;
• DISTRICTLY
  Strictly. Foxe.
• INCORPORATOR
  One of a number of persons who gets a company incorporated; one of the original members of a corporation.
• BOROUGHMASTER
  The mayor, governor, or bailiff of a borough.
• BOROUGHMONGER
  One who buys or sells the parliamentary seats of boroughs.
• REDISTRICT
  To divide into new districts.
• DISINCORPORATE
  1. To deprive of corporate powers, rights, or privileges; to divest of the condition of a corporate body. 2. To detach or separate from a corporation. Bacon.
• HEADBOROUGH; HEADBORROW
  A petty constable. (more info) 1. The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary, consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder, boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder. Blackstone.
• GAINSBOROUGH HAT
  A woman's broad-brimmed hat of a form thought to resemble those shown in portraits by Thomas Gainsborough, the English artist (1727-
• RED-LIGHT DISTRICT
  A district or neighborhood in which disorderly resorts are frequent; -- so called in allusion to the red light kept in front of many such resorts at night.
• DISINCORPORATION
  Deprivation of the rights and privileges of a corporation. T. Warton.
• REINCORPORATE
  To incorporate again.