ayuntamiento

American  

[ah-yoon-tah-myen-taw] / ɑˌyun tɑˈmyɛn tɔ /

noun

Spanish.

ayuntamientos plural

1. a municipal government.

2. a town hall or city hall.

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Inflected Forms

noun

• ayuntamientos
  plural

Example Sentences

Durante una aparición en 1994 del entonces presidente Clinton en un ayuntamiento de MTV para abordar el aumento de la violencia, un miembro de la audiencia le preguntó: “¿Son calzoncillos o calzoncillos?”

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2023

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 O'Shea, John Augustus

The actual body which met and directed municipal affairs was the ayuntamiento, made up of the more important magistrates and officials, of whom there was usually a considerable number and variety.

From American Nation: a history — Volume 1: European Background of American History, 1300-1600 by Cheyney, Edward Potts

A little further on he separated from his companions, giving them rendezvous at ten o'clock at the house of the ayuntamiento.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various

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 Bourne, Edward Gaylord