municipality vs gathering

municipality and gathering both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
municipality	Yes	No	No	No
gathering	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, gathering is a hypernym of municipality; that is, gathering is a word with a broader meaning than municipality:

Other hypernyms of municipality include assemblage.

municipality (noun)	gathering (noun)
people living in a town or city having local self-government	the social act of assembling
an urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government	the act of gathering something
	sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
	a group of persons together in one place