city hall

city hall

English

Alternative forms

• City Hall
• city chambers (term used in Scotland)

Noun

city hall (plural city halls)

New York City Hall

1. The building that houses a city's government.

   The vice-mayor has an office on the third floor of city hall.

2. (figuratively, metonymically) The city government; government in general.

   You can't fight city hall.

Synonyms

• See town hall

Translations

building

Arabic: بَلَدِيَّة‎ f (baladiyya) Armenian: քաղաքապետարան (hy) (kʿałakʿapetaran) Catalan: ajuntament (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 大會堂, 大会堂 (dàhuìtáng) Czech: radnice (cs) f Danish: rådhus (da) n Dutch: stadhuis (nl) n Esperanto: urbdomo Finnish: kaupungintalo (fi) French: hôtel de ville (fr) m, mairie (fr) f German: Rathaus (de) n Greek: δημαρχείο (el) n (dimarcheío) Hungarian: városháza (hu) Icelandic: ráðhús n Italian: municipio (it) Japanese: 市役所 (しやくしょ, shiyakusho)

Khmer: សាលាក្រុង (sālā krong) Korean: 시청사 (sicheongsa) Macedonian: гра́дска ку́ќа f (grádska kúḱa), гра́дски дом m (grádski dom) Norwegian: rådhus (no) n Polish: ratusz (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 Roman: većnica f Spanish: alcaldía f, ayuntamiento (es) m Swedish: rådhus (sv) n, stadshus (sv) n Tagalog: gusaling panlunsod Vietnamese: tòa thị chính, tòa thị chánh, tòa thị sảnh Volapük: konsälöp (vo)

government

Chinese: Mandarin: 市政府 (zh) (shìzhèngfǔ) Czech: radnice (cs) f, magistrát m Danish: rådhus (da) n Esperanto: urbreĝistaro Finnish: kaupunginhallitus (fi)

German: Rathaus (de) n Korean: 시청 (ko) (sicheong) Macedonian: о́пштина f (ópština), гра́дска у́права f (grádska úprava), гра́дски со́вет f (grádski sóvet) Portuguese: câmara municipal (pt) f (Portugal), prefeitura (pt) f (Brazil) Russian: муниципалите́т (ru) m (municipalitét), городско́й сове́т m (gorodskój sovét) Spanish: alcaldía f, ayuntamiento (es)