town
/ˈtaʊ̯n/ noun A1- A settlement; an area with residential districts, shops and amenities, and its own local government; especially one larger than a village and smaller than a city, historically enclosed by a fence or walls, with total populations ranging from several hundred to more than a hundred thousand (as of the early 21st century) · This town is really dangerous because these youngsters have Beretta handguns.
- Any more urbanized centre than the place of reference. · I'll be in Yonkers, then I'm driving into town to see the Knicks at the Garden tonight.
- The residents (as opposed to gown: the students, faculty, etc.) of a community which is the site of a university.
- Used to refer to a town or similar entity under discussion. · Call me when you get to town.· They put up "lost dog" posters all over town.
- A major city, especially one where the speaker is located.
- An interconnected maze of tunnels in which prairie dogs live.
- A townhouse.
- A municipal organization, such as a corporation, defined by the laws of the entity of which it is a part.
Plural towns
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I made a boat, I made a town,
With people tramping in to town.
The tailor’s tab is on the neck—‘Neal, Outfitter, Vermissa, U.S.A.’ I have spent an instructive afternoon in the rector’s library, and have enlarged my knowledge by adding the fact that Vermissa is a flourishing little town at the head of one of the best known coal and iron valleys in the United States.
Marilla agreed to let Anne go to town, and it was arranged that Mr.
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