English
- city chambers (term used in Scotland)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsɪti ˌhɔːl/, /ˈsɪtɪ ˌhɔːl/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈsɪti ˌhɔl/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈsɪti ˌhɑl/
Noun
city hall (plural city halls)
- The building that houses a city's government.
- Alternative form: City Hall
- Near-synonym: town hall
A new city hall was built after the big fire of 1883.
The vice-mayor has an office on the third floor of city hall.
- (figuratively, metonymic) The city government (city council, mayor, etc.); government in general.
- Alternative form: City Hall
- Near-synonym: town hall
- you can't fight city hall
The company got tired of the red tape from city hall and began planning to relocate to another city.
Translations
- Afrikaans: stadsaal
- Arabic: بَلَدِيَّة f (baladiyya)
- Aramaic:
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܹܝܬ ܡܕܝܼܢ݇ܬܵܐ m (bēt mdīta)
- Armenian: քաղաքապետարան (hy) (kʻaġakʻapetaran)
- Basque: udaletxe sg
- Bulgarian: кметство n (kmetstvo), община f (obština)
- Catalan: ajuntament (ca) m, casa de la vila f, casa consistorial f, casa de la ciutat f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 大會堂 / 大会堂 (zh) (dàhuìtáng), 市政廳 / 市政厅 (zh) (shìzhèngtīng)
- Czech: radnice (cs) f
- Danish: rådhus (da) n
- Dutch: stadhuis (nl) n, raadhuis (nl) n
- Esperanto: urbdomo, urbodomo
- Estonian: vallamaja
- Finnish: kaupungintalo (fi)
- French: hôtel de ville (fr) m, mairie (fr) f, maison communale (fr) f
- Galician: casa do concello (gl) f
- German: Rathaus (de) n
- Greek: δημαρχείο (el) n (dimarcheío)
- Hebrew: בִּנְיַן עִירִיָּה m (binyán 'iriyá)
- Hungarian: városháza (hu)
- Icelandic: ráðhús n
- Irish: halla cathrach m
- Italian: municipio (it) m, comune (it) m
- Japanese: 市役所 (ja) (しやくしょ, shiyakusho)
- Khmer: សាលាក្រុង (sālā krong)
- Korean: 시청사 (sicheongsa)
- Kven: raatihuonet
- Macedonian: гра́дска ку́ќа f (grádska kúḱa), гра́дски дом m (grádski dom)
- Norwegian: rådhus (no) n
- Pannonian Rusyn: городска хижа f (horodska xiža)
- Plautdietsch: Stautshus n
- Polish: ratusz (pl) m, urząd miejski (pl) m, magistrat (pl) m
- Portuguese: câmara municipal (pt) f (Portugal), prefeitura (pt) f (Brazil)
- Romanian: primărie (ro) f
- Russian: зда́ние муниципалите́та n (zdánije municipalitéta), ра́туша (ru) f (rátuša)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: већница f
- Latin: većnica f
- Spanish: alcaldía (es) f, ayuntamiento (es) m, consistorio (es) m, casa consistorial f
- Swedish: rådhus (sv) n, stadshus (sv) n
- Tagalog: gusaling panlunsod, 7hol (slang)
- Turkish: belediye binası
- Ukrainian: ра́туша f (rátuša), ме́рія f (mérija)
- Vietnamese: tòa thị chính (vi), tòa thị chánh, tòa thị sảnh
- Volapük: konsälöp (vo)
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government
- Basque: udal sg
- Catalan: ajuntament (ca) m, batllia (ca) f,, consistori m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 市政府 (zh) (shìzhèngfǔ)
- Czech: radnice (cs) f, magistrát m
- Danish: rådhus (da) n
- Dutch: raadhuis (nl) n, stadhuis (nl) n, gemeentehuis (nl) n
- Esperanto: urbreĝistaro
- Finnish: kaupunginhallitus (fi)
- French: mairie (fr) f
- Galician: concello (gl) m
- German: Rathaus (de) n
- Greek: δημαρχείο (el) n (dimarcheío)
- Italian: comune (it) m
- Korean: 시청 (ko) (sicheong)
- Macedonian: о́пштина f (ópština), гра́дска у́права f (grádska úprava), гра́дски со́вет f (grádski sóvet)
- Polish: ratusz (pl) m, urząd miasta (pl) m, magistrat (pl) m
- Portuguese: câmara municipal (pt) f (Portugal), prefeitura (pt) f (Brazil)
- Russian: муниципалите́т (ru) m (municipalitét), городско́й сове́т m (gorodskój sovét)
- Spanish: alcaldía (es) f, ayuntamiento (es), consistorio (es) m
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