myüˌnisəˈpaləd.ē, myəˌ-, -lətē, -i ÷məˌ- noun
( -es )
Etymology: French municipalité, from municipal (from Latin municipalis ) + -ité -ity — more at municipal
1.
a. : a primarily urban political unit (as a town or city) having corporate status and usually powers of self-government
a municipality … has no powers save those conferred upon it by the laws of the state — S.J.Ervin
b. : the governing body of such a unit
2. : an administrative area into which Philippine provinces are divided, comprising a number of barrios — compare población