municipalities

noun

plural of municipality
as in cities
a thickly settled, highly populated area a municipality with an excellent police department

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Recent Examples of municipalities Coral Springs and other municipalities plan to proceed with their own education and enforcement campaigns in the absence of state-level guidance. — Cbs Miami Team, CBS News, 26 June 2026 Right now, two of them are former state legislators who in the past have opposed efforts by Oklahoma municipalities to restrict oil and gas operations. — Nick Bowlin, ProPublica, 30 June 2026 While Thunberg says he’s seen some support for the lanes, Knox, who is also on the LNTC board, says local municipalities haven’t been convinced. — Michael Praats, Charlotte Observer, 4 July 2026 Yet in many municipalities, responsibility for maintaining sidewalks is a patchwork system, often left to private owners rather than local government. — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 3 July 2026 Turner notes that these technologies are developed to help municipalities, industries, and environmental initiatives manage water quality challenges more effectively. — Jason Phillips, USA Today, 2 July 2026 To come to its conclusion, the team collected data on small towns with populations between 1,000 and 6,000 people, with the 75 municipalities with the highest search volume included in the final calculation. — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 1 July 2026 Each of Pennsylvania’s 2,562 municipalities maintains its own license requirements, each with its own exam, experience requirements, and renewal cycle, and no reciprocity between them. — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026 In Ivory Coast, several days of rain brought flooding that left more than a dozen people dead, most of them in municipalities of Attécoubé and Yopougon in the capital, Abidjan, according to the Minister of National Cohesion Myss Belmonde Dogo. — ABC News, 30 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for municipalities
  1. cities
  2. towns
  3. metropolises
Noun
  • Room-service delivery robots are already common in hotels across many large Chinese cities.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2026
  • The severe weather threat will linger for parts of the mid-Atlantic on Sunday, stretching from northern Virginia into southern New Jersey, with cities like Richmond, DC, Baltimore and Philly in the threat zone once again.
    — Jon Haworth, ABC News, 5 July 2026
Definition of cities
Noun
  • Small towns across America had big plans to celebrate the nation’s semiquincentennial this weekend.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026
  • Beyond the foliage there's apple picking, harvest festivals, Halloween in Salem and a string of storybook towns.
    — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of towns
Noun
  • The party often endorses the same candidates as the DSA and is readying to target more mayoral offices in the country’s biggest metropolises this fall and in 2028.
    — Matt Brown, Fortune, 20 June 2026
  • The party often endorses the same candidates as the DSA and is readying to target more mayoral offices in the country's biggest metropolises this fall and in 2028.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 June 2026
Definition of metropolises

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“Municipalities.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/municipalities. Accessed 8 Jul. 2026.

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