city hall

English

Alternative forms

city chambers (term used in Scotland)

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪti ˌhɔːl/, /ˈsɪtɪ ˌhɔːl/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪti ˌhɔl/
(cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪti ˌhɑl/

Noun

city hall (plural city halls)

The building that houses a city's government.
The vice-mayor has an office on the third floor of city hall.
(figuratively, metonymic) The city government; government in general.
You can't fight city hall.

Synonyms

See town hall

Translations

building — see also town hall

Afrikaans: stadsaal
Arabic: بَلَدِيَّة f (baladiyya)
Armenian: քաղաքապետարան (hy) (kʻaġakʻapetaran)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܹܝܬ ܡܕܝܼܢ݇ܬܵܐ m (bēt mdīta)
Basque: udaletxe sg
Bulgarian: кметство n (kmetstvo), община f (obština)
Catalan: ajuntament (ca) m, casa de la vila f, casa consistorial f, casa de la ciutat f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 大會堂 / 大会堂 (zh) (dàhuìtáng), 市政廳 / 市政厅 (zh) (shìzhèngtīng)
Czech: radnice (cs) f
Danish: rådhus (da) n
Dutch: stadhuis (nl) n, raadhuis (nl) n
Esperanto: urbdomo, urbodomo
Estonian: vallamaja
Finnish: kaupungintalo (fi)
French: hôtel de ville (fr) m, mairie (fr) f, maison communale (fr) f
Galician: casa do concello (gl) f
German: Rathaus (de) n
Greek: δημαρχείο (el) n (dimarcheío)
Hebrew: בִּנְיַן עִירִיָּה m (binyán 'iriyá)
Hungarian: városháza (hu)
Icelandic: ráðhús n
Italian: municipio (it) m, comune (it) m
Japanese: 市役所 (ja) (しやくしょ, shiyakusho)
Khmer: សាលាក្រុង (sālā krong)
Korean: 시청사 (sicheongsa)
Kven: raatihuonet
Macedonian: гра́дска ку́ќа f (grádska kúḱa), гра́дски дом m (grádski dom)
Norwegian: rådhus (no) n
Pannonian Rusyn: городска хижа f (horodska xiža)
Plautdietsch: Stautshus n
Polish: ratusz (pl) m, urząd miejski (pl) m, magistrat (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 (es) f, ayuntamiento (es) m, consistorio (es) m, casa consistorial f
Swedish: rådhus (sv) n, stadshus (sv) n
Tagalog: gusaling panlunsod
Turkish: belediye binası
Ukrainian: ра́туша f (rátuša), ме́рія f (mérija)
Vietnamese: tòa thị chính (vi), tòa thị chánh, tòa thị sảnh
Volapük: konsälöp (vo)

government

Basque: udal sg
Catalan: ajuntament (ca) m, batllia (ca) f,, consistori m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 市政府 (zh) (shìzhèngfǔ)
Czech: radnice (cs) f, magistrát m
Danish: rådhus (da) n
Dutch: raadhuis (nl) n, stadhuis (nl) n, gemeentehuis (nl) n
Esperanto: urbreĝistaro
Finnish: kaupunginhallitus (fi)
French: mairie (fr) f
Galician: concello (gl) m
German: Rathaus (de) n
Greek: δημαρχείο (el) n (dimarcheío)
Italian: comune (it) m
Korean: 시청 (ko) (sicheong)
Macedonian: о́пштина f (ópština), гра́дска у́права f (grádska úprava), гра́дски со́вет f (grádski sóvet)
Polish: ratusz (pl) m, urząd miasta (pl) m, magistrat (pl) m
Portuguese: câmara municipal (pt) f (Portugal), prefeitura (pt) f (Brazil)
Russian: муниципалите́т (ru) m (municipalitét), городско́й сове́т m (gorodskój sovét)
Spanish: alcaldía (es) f, ayuntamiento (es), consistorio (es) m