单词 | outtown |
释义 | > as lemmasouttown outtown n. Brit. /ˈaʊttaʊn/ , U.S. /ˈaʊtˌtaʊn/ ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town > [noun] > town by situation thoroughfare1424 thoroughfare town1515 outtown?1517 sea-town1578 frontier1604 by-town1683 out-borough1832 out-township1837 ?1517–18 Bardwell Town Wardens Accts. in Proc. Suffolk Inst. Archaeol. & Nat. Hist. (1901) 11 118 Memorandum, that Thomas Cage hathe received for the taxke of lordchepys and of owtonys ffyrste, received of Mr. Bronde [etc.]. 1690 C. D. New England's Faction in Andros Tracts (1869) II. 216 No suitable Provision was made for our out-Towns and Frontiers. 1975 A. J. Robinson Econ. & New Towns iii. 90 The population of the new town would be 100,000 with 75,000 in the outtown component and 25,000 in the intown component. 1987 in Amer. Q. (1994) 46 5 Declaring that ‘the major urban form of our age’ is ‘the outtown’, he described it as an automobile-oriented, ‘new-style commercial center’. 2018 Z. L. Clark & N. Eliopulos Twilight of Elves iii. 48 The recent snow had left outtown veiled in white. < as lemmas |
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