ayuntamiento

American  

[ah-yoon-tah-myen-taw] / ɑˌjun tɑˈmjɛn tɔ /

noun

Spanish.

• ayuntamientos
  plural

1. a municipal government.

2. a town hall or city hall.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• ayuntamientos
  plural

Example Sentences

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ayuntamiento ayuntamientos

Barcelona and Malaga were stirring; the ayuntamiento made up its mind that Cadiz should be as good as its neighbours and show vigour too.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by John Augustus O'Shea

A city watchman, with a pipe in his mouth, looked drowsily and frowsily out of the town-hall or ayuntamiento.

From The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

In the capital and its suburbs, justice is administered by means of two lay alcaldes, who are appointed annually by the ayuntamiento from the citizens of the city.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Edward Gaylord Bourne

Don Horacio, steadily growing more slender and weak, but ever erect in his eternal new frock coat, continued taking his daily stroll, adjusting his life to the ticking of the clock of the ayuntamiento.

From The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan by Frances Douglas

Page 190 1 Regimiento: the body of regidors, who never exceeded twelve, forming a part of the municipal council, or ayuntamiento, in every capital of a jurisdiction.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 08 of 55 1591-1593 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson

In Mexico the ayuntamientos were under the most rigid responsibility to see that free children born of slaves received the best education that could be given them.

From The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War by Carter Godwin Woodson

The press was muzzled, and the local ayuntamientos were deprived of their rights, and became merely the means for the collection and distribution of the funds of the municipalities.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 2 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

The distinction between hidalgo and pechero has been abolished in modern Spain, but the powers and the constitution of ayuntamientos have been subject to many modifications.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various

The de facto government was accepted as a necessity, and under its direction "alcaldes" and "ayuntamientos" were elected.

From Tennessee's Partner by Bret Harte

He wrote to various friends in Madrid to exert themselves for the suspension of the unfriendly ayuntamientos above mentioned.

From Maximina by Armando Palacio Valdés