Municipal vs Urban - What's the difference?
municipal | urban |
Of or pertaining to a municipality (a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government).
Of or pertaining to the internal affairs of a nation.
(finance) A financial instrument issued by a municipality.
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=April 21, author=Julie Connelly, title=Muni Bonds, Safe With High Yields, work=New York Times
, passage=“This might be the last great opportunity for preretirement baby boomers to buy municipals at such attractive levels,” said Janet Fiorenza, head of municipal fixed income at Lehman Brothers Asset Management.}}
Related to the (or any) city.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-10
, author=Audrey Garric
, title=Urban canopies let nature bloom
, volume=188, issue=22, page=30
, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
Characteristic of city life.
As adjectives the difference between municipal and urban
is that municipal is of or pertaining to a municipality (a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government) while urban is related to the (or any) city.As a noun municipal
is a financial instrument issued by a municipality.As a proper noun Urban is
a given name derived from Latin.municipal
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Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* civicDerived terms
* municipalityNoun
(en noun)citation
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* * ----urban
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field. In Paris 22 hectares of roof have been planted, out of a potential total of 80 hectares.}}