town
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Noun (4)towns
- an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city“they drive through town on their way to work”Type of municipalityKinds hometown, cow town, boom town, market town, Main Street, burg, ghost townExamples Bennington, Selma, Idaho Falls, Watertown, Hays, Plymouth, Jalalabad, La Crosse, Vicksburg, Fort Smith +249 moreParts city limit, city limits
- the people living in a municipality smaller than a city“the whole town cheered the team”Synonyms: townspeopletownsfolkType of municipalityKinds borough
- an administrative division of a county“the town is responsible for snow removal”Synonyms: townshipType of administrative district, administrative division
- United States architect who was noted for his design and construction of truss bridges (1784-1844)Synonyms: Ithiel TownType of architect, designer
a state or condition markedly different from the norm
Translations
Noun settlement larger than a village
- Spanish
- pueblo
- French
- ville
- German
- Kleinstadt
- Italian
- cittadina
- Portuguese
- cidade
- Turkish
- kasaba
- Russian
- го́род górod
- Arabic
- بَلْدَة balda
- Chinese
- 城镇 chéngzhèn
- Japanese
- 町 machi
36 more languages
- Dutch
- stadje
- Polish
- miasteczko
- Swedish
- stad
- Greek
- κωμόπολη komópoli
- Korean
- 소도시 sodosi
- Indonesian
- kota kecil
- Vietnamese
- thị trấn
- Hungarian
- város
- Portuguese (PT)
- vila
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 城鎮 chéngzhèn
- Albanian
- qytezë
- Breton
- kêr
- Catalan
- vila
- Corsican
- cità
- Czech
- město
- Danish
- by
- Esperanto
- urbeto
- Estonian
- linn
- Finnish
- kaupunki
- Georgian
- ქალაქი kalaki
- Hebrew
- עֲיָרָה ayará
- Icelandic
- bær
- Kurdish
- bajarok
- Latvian
- pilsēta
- Lithuanian
- miestelis
- Malagasy
- tanana
- Norwegian
- by
- Romanian
- orășel
- Scottish Gaelic
- baile
- Serbo-Croatian
- gradić
- Slovak
- mesto
- Slovenian
- mesto
- Swahili
- mji
- Walloon
- veye
- Welsh
- tref
- Yiddish
- שטעטל shtetl
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. toun, tun, AS. tun inclosure, fence, village, town; akin to D. tuin a garden, G. zaun a hadge, fence, OHG. zun, Icel. tun an inclosure, homestead, house, Ir. & Gael. dun a fortress, W. din. Cf. Down, adv. & prep., Dune, tine to inclose.
1. Formerly: (a) An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. obsolete (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. obsolete (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls. obsolete John Palsgrave
2. Any number or collection of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop. British Dr. Samuel Johnson
3. Any collection of houses larger than a village, and not incorporated as a city; also, loosely, any large, closely populated place, whether incorporated or not, in distinction from the country, or from rural communities.
God made the country, and man made the town.— William Cowper
4. The body of inhabitants resident in a town; as, the town voted to send two representatives to the legislature; the town voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways.
5. A township; the whole territory within certain limits, less than those of a country. US
6. The court end of London; — commonly with the.
7. The metropolis or its inhabitants; as, in winter the gentleman lives in town; in summer, in the country.
Always hankering after the diversions of the town.— Joseph Addison
Stunned with his giddy larum half the town.— Alexander Pope
☞ The same form of expressions is used in regard to other populous towns.
8. A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard. dialect (England) & Scottish
☞ Town is often used adjectively or in combination with other words; as, town clerk, or town-clerk; town-crier, or town crier; townhall, town-hall, or town hall; townhouse, town house, or town-house.
Synonyms: Village; hamlet. See Village.
Town clerk, an office who keeps the records of a town, and enters its official proceedings. See Clerk. — Town cress Botany, the garden cress, or peppergrass. Richard Chandler Alexander Prior — Town house. (a) A house in town, in distinction from a house in the country. (b) See Townhouse. — Town meeting, a legal meeting of the inhabitants of a town entitled to vote, for the transaction of public bisiness. US — Town talk, the common talk of a place; the subject or topic of common conversation.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54