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

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

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 Warner, Charles Dudley

He reestablished the constitutional ayuntamiento, declared the press free, reorganized the national militia and put his department on the same footing that it had been in 1823.

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

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

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

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 Robertson, James Alexander