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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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• ayuntamientos
  plural

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Example Sentences

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ayuntamiento ayuntamientos

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

The local authorities were divided among themselves by bitter feuds—the ecclesiastical against the civil, the ayuntamiento against the governors, the administrative officers among themselves; brigandage, mutinies and intestinal struggles disturbed the peace.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various

Almost immediately he organized its governing assembly, or ayuntamiento.

From A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

The ayuntamiento of Monterey, in accordance with the decree, chose a commissioner for each of the seven Missions of the district.

From The Old Franciscan Missions Of California by George Wharton James

He then went to salute the ayuntamiento; then the Duke and the "royal" young lady.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Charles Dudley Warner

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

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

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

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

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