towntown /taʊn/ ●●● S1 W1 noun 
an industrial town in the Midlandstown of the town of Norwalk, Connecticut I walked to the nearest town.► see thesaurus at city2main centre [uncountable] the business or shopping centre of a town: We’re going into town tonight to see a film. They have a small apartment in town.3people [singular] all the people who live in a particular town: The whole town turned out to watch the procession.4where you live [uncountable] the town or city where you live: Cam left town about an hour ago, so he should be out at the farm by now. I’ll be out of town for about a week. Guess who’s in town? Jodie’s sister! Do you know of a good place to eat? I’m from out of town (=from a different town). We’re moving to another part of town.5village [countable] American English several houses forming a small group around a church, shops etc SYN village British English: Rowayton is a small town of around 4,000 people.6not country the town life in towns and cities in general: Which do you prefer, the town or the country?7go to town (on something) informal to do something in a very eager or thorough way: Angela really went to town on buying things for her new house.8(out) on the town informal going to restaurants, bars, theatres etc for entertainment in the evening: Frank is taking me out for a night on the town.9town and gown used to describe the situation in which the people living in a town and the students in a town seem to be separate and opposing groups → ghost town, home town, → paint the town (red) at paint2(5)COLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + townsmall/big· I grew up in a small town in Iowa.· The nearest big town is 20 miles away.a little town· a pretty little town in the French Alpsa major town· It is one of the UK’s biggest retailers with shops in every major town.busy/bustling· The town was busy even in November.quiet· The town is quiet in the summer.· Cannigione is a quiet little town with a scattering of shops, restaurants and cafés.sleepy (=very quiet, with not much happening)· Johnson grew up in the sleepy retirement town of Asheville.a historic/ancient town· Visitors can go on a tour of this historic town.an industrial town· Thousands moved to the newly forming industrial towns to work in the mills.a seaside town· young people looking for seasonal work in seaside townsa provincial town (=one that is not near the capital)· Many provincial towns were transformed by the coming of the railway.a market town (=a town in Britain where there is a regular outdoor market)· The pretty market town of Ashbourne is only 9 miles away.somebody’s home town (=the town where someone was born)· He was buried in his home town of Leeds.a new town (=one of several towns built in Britain since 1946)· The design of Milton Keynes and other new towns proved unpopular.phrasesthe centre of town/the town centre British English, the center of town/the town center American English· The hotel was right in the center of town.the outskirts/edge of a town· It was six o'clock when she reached the outskirts of the town.
WORD ORIGINtown
Origin:
Old English tun ‘yard, buildings inside a wall, village, town’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a town of about 35,000 people
- A large sign announced that we were entering the town of Knock.
- a small town in the Midwest
- deep divisions in wealth between town and country
- He grew up in a small town.
- Just about the whole town showed up at the funeral.
- La Coruna is a pretty seaside town on the north-western tip of Spain.
- More and more people were seeking work in the growing towns.
- Steyne Street was a narrow street in a shabby but respectable part of town.
- The town is situated some 23 miles north of London.
- Although the population is increasing-estimated to be 32 million-over half live in towns or cities.
- In the surprise attack, they torched the town and rounded up its inhabitants.
- Our responsibility stops at our town line, another board member blurted out.
- The Delta towns, and even Rangoon, came under threat.
- Villages as well as towns expanded rapidly during the first half of the nineteenth century.
- We were too busy admiring the town to let their griping bother us.
- You can discover the great square keep, and enjoy the panoramic view from the top over the town below.
THESAURUSplace with houses, shops, and offices
a large area with houses, shops, offices etc that is often the centre of government for an area. A city is bigger than a town: · The nearest big city is San Francisco.
a large area with houses, shops, offices etc. A town is smaller than a city: · La Coruña is a pretty seaside town.
(also capital city) the city where the government of a country or state is: · We travelled to Budapest, the capital of Hungary.
a big busy city that is full of people and activity: · After 1850 Paris grew quickly into a busy metropolis.
adjective [only before noun] relating to towns and cities: · Air pollution is particularly bad in urban areas.· urban development
Longman Language Activatora town a place where a lot of people live with houses, streets, shops etc: · More and more people were seeking work in the growing towns.· The town is situated some 23 miles north of London.· a small town in the Midwesta seaside/industrial/market town: · La Coruna is a pretty seaside town on the north-western tip of Spain. part of town: · Steyne Street was a narrow street in a shabby but respectable part of town.the town of Warrington/Poitiers/Kimball etc written: · A large sign announced that we were entering the town of Knock.town and country (=people who live in towns and people who live in the country): · deep divisions in wealth between town and country
a big and important town that is often the centre of government for an area, has a lot of trade and industry, and is likely to contain important political, educational, or religious institutions: · You should visit San Francisco. It's a beautiful city.· The major industrial cities were getting increasingly overcrowded.a big/crowded/medieval etc city: · I was alone in a big city in a new country.· Leeds is a thriving, vibrant, and prosperous city.the city of Belfast/Jerusalem/Boston etc written: · The city of Barcelona is famous for its wonderful architecture.· the ancient city of Damascus
a very small town in the country: · There are some nice little pubs in the villages round here.· She left her village in the north of Thailand and went to live in Bangkok.
a place where people come to live for the first time and where they build a village or town: · She lived in a small settlement on the edge of the desert.· Settlements started to appear all along the river.· The tools were found in an early Iron Age settlement.
the centre of a town or city British /center American the part of a town or city where most of the shops, banks, theatres etc are: · a charming little town with an unspoiled medieval centrecentre of: · I work in the centre of London, so I can easily go shopping after work.city centreBritish /city center American: · A bomb went off in the city center and 19 people were killed.town centre British: · She's gone into the town centre to do some shopping.
American in or to the part of a city where most of the shops, banks, theatres etc are: · She lives in a really beautiful apartment downtown.go downtown: · I have to go downtown later.
British spoken in or into the centre of a town or city: · I suggest we meet somewhere in town and have lunch together.· He bought us tickets to the best show in town.· I'm going into town. Do you want anything?· Can you give me a lift into town?
the areas that are close to the centre of a big city, especially where many poorer people live and there are often social problems - use this especially in political and economic contexts: · policies aimed at revitalizing America's inner citiesthe inner city: · Suburban styles of life are very different from those in the inner city.
the areas at the edge of a town or city an area around the edges of a city, where many people live because it is quieter and there is more space than in the centre: suburb of: · I was born and brought up in a suburb of New York City.the suburbs: · More and more people are moving to the suburbs every year.· All the social workers come in from their comfortable homes in the suburbs.a wealthy/middle-class/respectable etc suburb: · They have just bought a house in Pacific Palisades, a wealthy suburb of Los Angeles.
the area around the edge of a city or just outside it: · The Cité De Science is a futuristic complex in the Parisian outskirts.on the outskirts: · His body was discovered on the city's outskirts three days later.the outskirts of Tokyo/London etc: · By 9 o'clock we reached the outskirts of Berlin.the outskirts of town: · There are plans to build a new shopping mall on the outskirts of town.
British out-of-town shops, cinemas etc are built outside a town, so that people from the town have to drive to them: · an out-of-town shopping centre· Town centre shops face a threat from large out-of-town developments which offer hundreds of shops under one roof.
a large area of buildings, factories etc around the edges of a city that used to be countryside - use this to describe places that are ugly, noisy, or unpleasant: · At that time, little was done to control the urban sprawl.· The natural habitats of Britain's wildlife have been ravaged by urban sprawl and pollution.
the town where you are from the town where you were born, where you lived as a child, or where you live now: · Sarajevo is my home town and I did not want to leave.home town of: · Johnson lived in Seattle for ten years before returning to his home town of Cody, Wyoming.
the place where you were born or the place where you usually live, especially if this is where you feel happy and want to live: · Her home, she said, was in Hong Kong, but she hadn't been there since she was a child.feel like home: · I've lived in Madrid for many years, and it feels like home to me now.
the biggest or most important town in a country or area the town or city where the government of a country or area is: · Rome is one of the world's most beautiful capitals.capital of: · What's the capital of Canada?capital city: · The tour includes a trip to Budapest, Hungary's capital city.state/regional/provincial etc capital: · Sacramento is the state capital of California.
the largest, most important city in a country or area - use this especially to emphasize that a city is busy and full of people and activity: · After 1850 Paris grew quickly into a busy metropolis.· They drove quickly, leaving the immense metropolis behind them.metropolis of: · Our aim is to make Sydney the musical metropolis of the world.
relating to or in a town · The town council has proposed a new road building project.· With better town planning, traffic problems could be avoided.town square (=a square in the centre of a town) · A market is held daily in the town square.
relating to or in a city: · The city library cost over $15 million to build.· Residents blame city officials for poor housing conditions.· the city authoritiescity streets: · Beneath the city streets is a network of sewers.city life: · City life is becoming increasingly dangerous.
British relating to a village: · There is a village festival every year at the beginning of May.· Has village life changed significantly in the last few years?village shop/school/hall etc: · We have a church, one pub and a village shop.
relating to towns and cities, the people who live in them, or the things that happen in them: · The problem of air pollution is especially serious in urban areas.· China's growing urban population· post-war urban planning· urban growth
relating to the government of a city or town: · Civic leaders cannot agree on what is best for the city.· An important civic function is taking place in the city hall this evening. · Harlow Council has always been generous with civic funding for music and the arts.· It is the civil duty of every citizen to vote.
relating to the government of a town or city or to the public services it provides: · Municipal elections will be held on April 12th.· Not far from the town centre is the municipal park.· The museum and other municipal buildings are threatened.
American in or belonging to the main business area in the centre of a town or city: · Taylor worked in a dingy little office in downtown Chicago.· Many downtown department stores are moving out into the wealthier suburbs.· a downtown hotel
relating to a large city: · Some workers can only afford homes outside metropolitan areas.· the metropolitan authorities
all the people in a group all the people in a group, or people in general. Everyone is slightly more formal than everybody: · I think everyone enjoyed the party.· Everybody knows that too much fatty food is bad for you.· Help yourselves, there's plenty of food for everyone.everyone/everybody else (=all the other people): · I take lots of photographs of everybody else, but I don't have many of me.everyone but Ann/Mark/me etc (=all the people except Ann, Mark etc): · He blames everyone but himself for his problems.
every person in a group: · There was no-one in the office - they were all having lunch.all the/these/their/my etc: · John spoke for all the workers.· All my friends like my boyfriend.we all/you all/them all/us all: · We all felt tired so we didn't go out.· I decided to give them all another chance.all of: · Come in, all of you.· All of our great leaders have had reputations for being difficult to work with.all children/teachers etc (=used for making a general statement about people of the same kind): · All children love candy.almost/nearly all: · Nowadays, almost all employers will expect to see your CV before they call you for an interview.
everyone in the world, town, office etc - use this to emphasize that everyone is included: · On 13th May, Churchill spoke from London and the whole world listened.· Keep your voice down, you don't have to tell the whole office.· The whole town has been affected by this disaster. Everyone knows someone who died.
British spoken all the people in a group - use this especially when you do not like those people: · I hate the lot of them.· "Outside, the lot of you!'' he shouted.· Those two have tricked the lot of us.
use this to mean everyone in a group of people when you want to show that none of the people are important in any way: · Her sister told her mother, who then told all and sundry.· After the book signing Clancy stood around talking to all and sundry.
British all around American if there are smiles, tears etc all round , everyone in the group smiles, cries etc: · There were smiles all round as he stood up to make his speech.· There were tears all round when the time came for him to leave.· It was compliments all around as security operators celebrated a virtually trouble-free day.
WORD SETSabyss, nounalluvial, adjectivealluvium, nounalpine, adjectiveAmerican, adjectiveAntarctica, anticyclone, nounarchipelago, nounArctic, adjectivearid, adjectiveAsia, atlas, nounatoll, nounAustralasia, Australasian, adjectiveAustralia, avalanche, nounaxis, nounbank, nounbarometer, nounbarrier reef, nounbasin, nounbay, nounbayou, nounbeach, nounbearing, nounbed, nounbight, nounbluff, nounborder, nounborder, verbborderland, nounborderline, nounborough, nounbox canyon, nounBritish, adjectivebutte, nouncanyon, nouncape, nouncapital, nouncardinal point, nounCaribbean, adjectivecartography, nouncay, nounchain, nounchaparral, nounchart, nounchasm, nounchimney, nounChinese, adjectivecirrus, nounCIS, nouncliff, nounclimate, nounclimatic, adjectivecoastal, adjectivecoastline, nouncockney, nouncol, nouncold front, nouncommuter belt, nouncompass, nounconfluence, nouncontinent, nouncontinental, adjectivecontinental shelf, nouncontour, nounconurbation, nouncoordinate, nouncorridor, nouncorrie, nouncoterminous, adjectivecouncil estate, nouncountry, nouncounty, nouncounty town, nouncourse, nouncove, nouncrag, nouncraggy, adjectivecreek, nouncrevasse, nouncrevice, nouncumulus, nouncyclone, noundateline, noundelta, noundesert, noundesert island, noundevelopment, noundistrict, noundivide, noundown, adverbdune, noundust bowl, nouneast, nouneast, adjectiveeast, adverbeastbound, adjectiveeasterly, adjectiveeasterly, nouneastern, adjectiveEasterner, nouneasternmost, adjectiveeastwards, adverbelevation, nouneminence, nounenvirons, nounequatorial, adjectiveerode, verberosion, nounescarpment, nounestuary, nounEurope, nounextraterritorial, adjectiveeyot, nounface, nounfarmland, nounfeeder, nounfiord, nounfirth, nounfjord, nounflood plain, nounfluvial, adjectivefrontier, nounfrontiersman, noungale force, adjectivegap, noungeo-, prefixgeography, noungeophysics, noungeopolitics, noungeyser, nounglacial, adjectiveglaciation, nounglacier, nounglobe, noungoldfield, noungorge, noungrassland, nounGrecian, adjectivegreen belt, noungrid, noungrotto, noungroundwater, noungulch, noungulf, noungully, nounhead, nounheadland, nounheadwaters, nounheartland, nounhemisphere, nounhighland, adjectivehighlands, nounhigh water mark, nounhinterland, nounHome Counties, the, homeland, nounhurricane, noun-i, suffixIberian, adjectiveiceberg, nounice cap, nounice floe, nounice pack, nounice sheet, nouninhabitant, nouninland, adjectiveinland, adverbinlet, nouninner city, nouninshore, adverbinsular, adjectiveintercontinental, adjectiveInternational Date Line, nounisland, nounisle, nounislet, nounisobar, nounIsraeli, adjectiveIsraeli, nounisthmus, nounItalian, adjectiveItalianate, adjectiveItalo-, prefixJapanese, adjectivekey, nounknoll, nounlagoon, nounlake, nounlandlocked, adjectivelandmass, nounlandslide, nounlandslip, nounlat., Latin, adjectiveLatin America, nounLatin American, adjectivelatitude, nounlevee, nounlittoral, nounlong., longitude, nounlongitudinal, adjectivelough, nounlowlands, nounlow-lying, adjectivelow water mark, nounmagnetic north, nounmagnetic pole, nounmarsh, nounmarshland, nounmeander, verbMediterranean, adjectiveMercator projection, nounmeridian, nounmesa, nounMiddle America, nounmidtown, adjectivemonsoon, nounmoorland, nounmorass, nounmountain, nounmountainside, nounmountaintop, nounmouth, nounmudslide, nounmull, nounnarrows, nounnavigation, nounNE, neck, nounnor'-, prefixnorth, nounnorth, adjectivenorth, adverbNorth America, nounnortheast, nounnortheast, adjectivenortheasterly, adjectivenortheastern, adjectivenortheastwards, adverbnortherly, adjectivenorthern, adjectivenortherner, nounnorthernmost, adjectivenorthwards, adverbnorthwest, nounnorthwest, adjectivenorthwesterly, adjectivenorthwestern, adjectivenorthwestwards, adverbnotch, nounNW, NZ, oasis, nounoccidental, nounocean, nounonshore, adjectiveopenness, nounOrdnance Survey map, nounoriental, adjectiveoutcrop, nounoverspill, nounpack ice, nounpaddy, nounpalisade, nounpan-, prefixpanhandle, nounparallel, nounpeak, nounpeninsula, nounPersian, adjectivephysical geography, nounplain, nounplateau, nounpoint, nounpolar, adjectivepole, nounpolitical geography, nounpollutant, nounpop., populate, verbpopulation, nounprairie, nounprecipice, nounprecipitation, nounPrime Meridian, principality, nounprojection, nounpromontory, nounprovince, nounprovincial, adjectivepueblo, nounR, rainfall, nounrain forest, nounrain gauge, nounrainstorm, nounrange, nounravine, nounreef, nounreference, nounregion, nounregional, adjectiverelief map, nounreservoir, nounresettle, verbresidential, adjectiveresource, nounridge, nounrift valley, nounrise, verbriver, nounriver basin, nounriver bed, nounRoman, adjectiverotation, nounrugged, adjectiverun-off, nounrural, adjectivesand, nounsand bar, nounsandstorm, nounsandy, adjectivesavanna, nounScandinavian, nounscar, nounscarp, nounscree, nounscrubland, nounSE, seaboard, nounsea breeze, nounseafront, nounsea level, nounseaport, nounseaward, adjectivesection, nounsemitropical, adjectiveshelf, nounslough, nounsmog, nounsnowfield, nounsource, nounsouth, nounsouth, adjectivesouth, adverbSouth America, adjectivesoutheast, nounsoutheast, adjectivesoutheasterly, adjectivesoutheastern, adjectivesoutheastwards, adverbsoutherly, adjectivesouthern, adjectivesouthernmost, adjectivesouthwards, adverbsouthwest, nounsouthwest, adjectivesouthwesterly, adjectivesouthwestern, adjectivesouthwestwards, adverbspeleology, nounspit, nounspur, nounstrait, nounsubcontinent, nounsubtropical, adjectivesuburb, nounsuburban, adjectivesummit, nounsurvey, nounsurvey, verbSW, swamp, nountableland, nounterrain, nounterritory, nountidal, adjectivetidal wave, nountidewater, nountime zone, nountop, nountopography, nountor, nountornado, nountown, nountown centre, nountowpath, nountrack, nountract, nountrade route, nountrail, nountransatlantic, adjectivetranscontinental, adjectivetributary, nountropic, nountropical, adjectivetundra, nountyphoon, nounUK, the, uncharted, adjectiveup, adverbup-country, adjectiveuplands, nounupper, adjectiveupriver, adverbupstate, adjectiveupstream, adverbuptown, adverburban, adjectiveurbanized, adjectiveurban renewal, nounurban sprawl, nounUS, the, adjectivevalley, nounW, warm front, nounwaste, adjectivewasteland, nounwater, verbwatercourse, nounwaterfall, nounwaterfront, nounwaterhole, nounwatering place, nounwater meadow, nounwatershed, nounwater table, nounwaterway, nounweather vane, nounwest, nounwest, adjectiveWest, nounwestern, adjectiveWesterner, nounwesternmost, adjectivewestward, adverbwilderness, nounwolds, nounzoning, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYADJECTIVES/NOUN + town Guess who’s just blown into town? a provincial town the popular seaside resort of Brighton The hotel is just off the main square of Sorrento. a tough area of ChicagoCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· I grew up in a small town in Iowa.· The nearest big town is 20 miles away.
· a pretty little town in the French Alps
· It is one of the UK’s biggest retailers with shops in every major town.
· The town was busy even in November.
· The town is quiet in the summer.· Cannigione is a quiet little town with a scattering of shops, restaurants and cafés.
(=very quiet, with not much happening)· Johnson grew up in the sleepy retirement town of Asheville.
· Visitors can go on a tour of this historic town.
· Thousands moved to the newly forming industrial towns to work in the mills.
· young people looking for seasonal work in seaside towns
(=one that is not near the capital)· Many provincial towns were transformed by the coming of the railway.
(=a town in Britain where there is a regular outdoor market)· The pretty market town of Ashbourne is only 9 miles away.
(=the town where someone was born)· He was buried in his home town of Leeds.
(=one of several towns built in Britain since 1946)· The design of Milton Keynes and other new towns proved unpopular.
phrases British English, the center of town/the town center American English· The hotel was right in the center of town.
· It was six o'clock when she reached the outskirts of the town.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Guess who’s just blown into town?· the Chinese border town of Shenzhen
· an attractive country church surrounded by trees
(=that a lot of people leave each day to travel to work)· It’s a commuter town about 40 miles from London.
(=a town etc on a frontier)
· the hill towns of Tuscany
American English I’ll look for work as soon as I hit town.
I’ll look for work as soon as I hit town.· He was held without bail for thirty days in the county jail.
a provincial town· They're only a five minute stroll away from the main resort centre with all its bars, restaurants and nightlife.
the popular seaside resort of Brighton The hotel is just off the main square of Sorrento. a tough area of Chicago· Bath, my nearest large town, has never provided roots.· In Duxbury, a large town plow had to be towed by a tractor.· There are Cedok offices in most of the large towns in Czechoslovakia.· In 1882, Tombstone had an estimated 10, 000 people and was the largest town in Arizona.· All three of them are looking for work in large towns.· What is the size of each of the four largest towns?· The larger town of Keszthely, on Lake Balaton, is a short bus ride away from Heviz and easily reached.· By 1811 Belper was the second largest town in Derbyshire.
· When they had all arrived in the little Cumbrian market town about fourteen years ago, everything had seemed rosy.· There were a number of little houses in town whose windows were dark.· Louth in Lincolnshire, 16 miles south of Grimsby, is a pleasant little country market town.· The little town crowns a low plateau just out of reach of the flood plain of the nearby Deerfield River.· The names of the little towns round about Valence ring like peals of bells compelling you to go and look at them.· I try to picture the basilica and the beautiful little medieval town of Assisi, tucked into the side of Mount Subasio.· In the little town of Roding an elderly woman is sweeping the streets with a birch-twig besom.· There were only sixteen thousand people in our little town, and six thousand of them worked for Mr Finch.
· The bulk of his clients comprise severely disturbed psychotic patients from nearby villages and towns.· Taxis can be hired in the nearby towns of Kalambaka or Kastraki.· A few years ago a terrible fire broke out in the nearby town of Dumka.· Reports are coming into the newsroom of a cholera epidemic in a nearby town.· Windows were shattered and ceilings cracked in several nearby towns.· Scattered villages house people who work at the power station, or in the nearby towns of Bridgwater and Taunton.· And the situation there is far better than in the nearby mining town of Lota.
· The adjacent roads were then diverted into the new town.· Urban nightmare of the past Small towns were overrun, new towns created.· So thoroughly buried was Herculaneum that a new town, Resina, has been built right on top of the old.· We were designing a new town, Cold Spring, outside of Baltimore.· Most landlords, even bishops and abbots, made no attempt to lay out their new towns.· No one, he kept arguing, builds a new town with telephone poles.· Now the new town is being revamped.· Without new towns of some sort, we shall not protect the countryside; we shall ruin it.
· The old town square was filled with people and the jubilant sound of the marching band as performers juggled fire.· If there had been horses instead of Jeeps, it would have looked like an Old West town.· In the Sixties, said the lady at the museum, the old town was gutted.· Ministers lost status and irritated each other as diverse populations tore apart the unity of originally close-knit old towns.· An abiding memory of Baden is the harmony of the old town.· An entire show devoted to the reopening of a fake old western town / amusement park.· The main centre is Portoferraio with a marina, a renaissance fortress, a picturesque old town and Napoleon's town house.· The old part of town is just full of magnificent old buildings.
· Tiree, along with many other towns and places, is having tapes of the events played in Baugh and Balinoe Hall.· Rioting was reported in several other towns.· He says they've other towns to look at.· To a much lesser extent other towns also depended upon an inflow of migrants to maintain their numbers.· Preston's experience was in many ways typical of the other old market towns that had been overwhelmed by the cotton industry.· Father had the job, but when they built the new outfall on the other side of town we stayed on here.· Florence and Siena are there of course, but there are many other towns to discover such as Greve and Lucca.· About ten years ago another dancing school opened on the other side of town.
· There were reports of demonstrations and lawlessness in some provincial towns.· There is growing evidence that white supremacist groups are renewing hate campaigns against Aborigines in some provincial towns.· Foremost among provincial towns were a handful of regional capitals with populations upwards of five or six thousand.· In the provincial towns of San Miguel and Santa Ana, the markets were also occupied.· It was like being exiled from Paris to a mall provincial town.· As protest spread to provincial towns on May 25, Bongo ordered an official inquiry into Rendjambe's death.· She lives with her parents in a comfortable house overlooking fields and trees on the edge of a provincial Midlands town.
· Villa to let near small Tuscan town.· Roots may just be retained in small market towns like Grantham, Selby and Chipping Norton, in spite of the tourists.· Danger, suspense, pregnancy, stillbirths, and nuclear dangers combine in this story set in a small rural town.· The last wrecked Magherafelt, a small town, days before its Mad May Fair.· Just reading these late census reports and it shows that the small town is passing.· A power station could produce enough electricity to supply a small town.· It did not speak about a small town in Ohio or a small school district in New Hampshire or Vermont.
NOUN· Local republicans say that until recently all attacks on the line occurred on the South Armagh side of the border town.· And many of those truckers obviously felt it was their right to deliver goods to points far beyond the border town.· Government and allied forces claimed to have stemmed rebel attacks on the border towns by the end of the month.· Already, wages in the border town are higher than inside the country.· We continue via the breathtaking Arlberg pass and arrive at the border town of Kufstein.· A reporter and an editor in the border town of Matamoros are confronted by gunmen while walking to work.· We were to switch trains in Chulwon, which was two train stations before the border town of Tongdu-chon.
· The youths ran off towards the town centre with the bag which contained about £80.· Just a few minutes walk from town centre & beach.· The local bike club is now drawing up ideas for secure parking equipment it wants to see installed in the town centre.· The 67-year-old was attacked in Ludlow, Shropshire, by a man who had followed her through the town centre.· The collision was on a town centre route that is fast becoming an accident blackspot.· She was given a decent welcome by the crowd at the Ang Mo Kio town centre.· Joanne specialises in town and country planning and is currently involved in work relating to a major development in the town centre.
· Similarly, the town council of Leicester ordered that at least one member of every household should attend sermons twice a week.· Her room was always full of flowers and cards from her patients and from the town council.· Then, as now, a town council was so dazzled they rubber-stamped all this terribly rich man asked of them.· The town council arranged the funeral and the guild members attended in a secondary role.· The next step in the process is set for the August 20 town council meeting.· Instead the town council has decided that a civic medallion should be worn instead.· Sliding it by the town council, however, was another matter.
· Even the smallest county town could become the Mecca of the surplus rural population.· Richard Allen Davis returned to this peaceful Sonoma County town in a van with darkened windows.· Salisbury, quiet cathedral city, the county town of Wiltshire near to which is the village in which Mr Pecksniff lives.· Northampton was another elegant county town and regional market centre and was known far and wide for its horse fairs.· Which are the county towns, where many people are employed in administration?· Louth's county town, Dundalk, is very near Belfast.· Chester, a flourishing county town, had the King's School founded in 1541.
· In a ghost town, silent and deserted as the Marie Celeste, I gave myself a history lesson.· The area resembles a series of ghost towns.· We think it's going to make Darlington a ghost town.· Exploring old mines and ghost towns.· I stayed in the one house left standing, a guest house in a ghost town of cracked jambs and gaping doorways.· Benguela, in the south, is one of Kapuscinski's ghost towns.
· Crowds waited outside the town hall for three o'clock.· The medieval tower of the town hall of Foligno, near Assisi, also sustained further damage.· Although telephone lines to the city remain severed, a Sarajevo radio reporter said corpses littered the pavement next to the town hall.· Black leaders have held demonstrations, candle-lighting ceremonies and town hall meetings over the controversy.· This reluctance to take office is recalled during the annual mayor-making in the council chamber of the town hall.· Draft rating valuation lists showing the new rateable values for 1.5 million businesses will be available from town halls from January 2.· The town hall is set to reopen next year and will include a tourist information centre, library and concert room.· One is the town hall, elegant with colonnades.
· Olga, and one or two old friends still living in my home town, kept in touch.· Smith was brought up in Newark in Nottinghamshire and he left his home town to study mathematics at Leeds University.· Ogley has played nearly 200 League matches following spells with his home town club Barnsley, Carlisle and Aldershot.· They started exchanging recollections of older pageants in their own home towns.· It's her home town although it's changed a lot since she was a girl.· Give him a name and home town and away you go.· Born in 1930 in Southport, he was schooled in his home town before studying chemistry at Liverpool University.
· Dating from 1575, here stands the town house of the Marquess of Tweeddale.· Constellation Real Estate received conditional sketch phase approval to build 44 town houses on 12.39 acres.· The 15 homes include three maisonettes, two studios and nine bigger flats, as well as a substantial town house.· The next morning he picked her up and they went to see four apartments and a town house.· The Earl of Derby had a town house here.· I have a town house here, but my wife and kids and I live in Mississippi.· A detached two- bedroomed town house in the capital Wellington went for £18,500.· Carter's cousin, Keithia Merriweather, was living in the town house and got to know Katelyn.
· Travel has been easier than in the upper course valleys and so a few villages have grown to become market towns.· Last month more than 400 Hema were massacred in the market town of Blukwa.· The old market town was surrounded but not transformed by these activities.· What are the names of some of these small market towns?· Sited ten miles west of Oxford is the small market town of Witney.· For a small firm of solicitors in a market town, conveyancing has accounted for about half of all fee income.· It is hard to think of any useful commodity that was not on offer in this thriving market town.
· Jim Wells has a first degree and postgraduate qualification in town planning.· It was to these issues that town planning had to respond.· Britain remained wedded to its Unwin-esque traditions in housing design and layout and to the statutory town planning which we have described.· The notion of town planning and its profession of technically qualified practitioners inevitably stood to be beneficiaries in this context.· The basis for statutory town planning was changed in the Town and Country Planning Act, 1932.· The town planning ship ran into choppy waters and it remains in uncertain seas.· It was a crucial decision and town planning in Britain was immeasurably influenced by it.· Increasingly, the town planning movement came to be dominated by an institutionalized professional ideology.
· It is a seaside town inland.· Worst hit were the Devon seaside towns of Sidmouth and Exmouth, which were cut off for several hours on Wednesday.· One person I know moved to a seaside town in 1982 and soon recognized the need for a video rental shop.· And then there are all the seaside towns and the dockyard towns, about which I have said nothing.· These styles can be seen in the pictures of mod rallies at seaside towns.· Sefton Hamilton entered the room as a gale might hit an unhappy seaside town.· Shelley looked up at the orange moon, slung low behind the ornate roofs of the seaside town.
· The old town square was filled with people and the jubilant sound of the marching band as performers juggled fire.· Nowadays, the battlefield is an opera stage, at Sebastiani Theatre on the town square.· Here the narrow streets lead to a town square shaded with trees.· In Fellini, the town square is never felt to be the social center of a community.· They jogged round a corner, and found themselves in what passed for the town square of Dead Rat, Arizona.· Surrounding the town square were numerous small buildings, including the courthouse.· Global unity will be reinforced by music and drama in the town square.· Try Bashford Court, across the street from the town square.
VERB· We drove out of town on the Dublin road, then swung up a lane, beside a Round Tower and monastic ruin.· Because I am interested in ruins, I decided to drive over to the town site.· They would have been driven from the town and had to survive in unpopulated areas.· Instead I keep driving, get to town, time to kill, so I find a bartender to kill it.· Christina was pleased to get her into the car without being mobbed, and drove quickly out of town and on to the coast-road.· We drove through town and into the country.· Had lunch in Caxford, drove into town and did some shopping.· Then we got into the van and drove back to town.
· They make friends with children in other cities without leaving town.· I was leaving town with my family to drive up to the Smoky Mountains.· As far as she was concerned, Christine had simply left town and never been heard from again.· Dianne sounded at peace as she packed to leave town.· Cases five and six had not left town and the urban area was, therefore, the only plausible site of infection.· It looked like the circus leaving town, which may be an apt analogy.· Once they had left the town behind them Claudia saw the shape of the hills, the brilliance of the sea.· Many people will leave town, but whites will not leave town.
· One of our problems is that most of us live in towns.· They, or at least the Quakers who lived in our town, had become paragons of propriety.· I live in a town called Chastlecombe, where I create expensive hand-knitted sweaters to sell to tourists.· Virgil Glover came home one day and announced with some irritation that he was living right in town.· Most of the people here have their roots in the country, but they live in the town.· A little to the side of each church is its cemetery, used by the families who live in town.· History lives on in the towns of Framlingham and Orford each with its own splendid medieval castle.
· But as you've got a long wait for the next production, let's move on to the town itself.· It was a time when the Cleveland football team was moving to town.· Many will decide that the best thing to do is to move to the town in search of work.· It had belonged to their grandparents before they moved in town.· Get her moved up to town a.s.a.p.· Eventually he decided to move from the town where he had been known as a prosperous citizen.· Valerie, aged twenty-three, had never slept away from home since they had moved to the town almost twenty years before.· And the quantities of drugs moving through those towns into the United States is massive.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► the townPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► the only game in town► man-about-town► skip town/skip the country► be the talk of the town/Paris etc
1place [countable] a large area with houses, shops, offices etc where people live and work, that is smaller than a city and larger than a village: - A night on the town for the boys.
- But don't let that fool you - by nightfall people are waking up ready to go out on the town.
- Had trouble dragging yourself out on the town on Sunday night?
- Joy was a Saturday morning out on the town.
- Nowadays, the battlefield is an opera stage, at Sebastiani Theatre on the town square.
- The next time I saw him, I was out on the town with Peter Mbalu-Mukasa.
- The others have gone out on the town.
- Back to the town and gown.
- He says Morse is town and gown.
- Sandy went to town on the displays.
- Bénéteau went to town in their usual impressive way; it is, after all, their home patch.
- Bury that snout in Haagen-Dasz and go to town!
- In the United States of the early 1940s, women still donned hats and gloves to go to town.
- Over another cup of coffee we made plans to go to town.
- This month he goes to town on forms.
- When we used to go to town he used to get her out and carry her.
- Windows give you a chance to go to town.
- Added to this is the vibration caused by heavy goods vehicles and the annoyance of air traffic suffered by all city dwellers.
- Bartlett drew from the old-fashioned uniforms of the virile football player and the preening perfection of the city dweller.
- But then, city dwellers have never been long on modesty.
- It is the dilemma of city dwellers, of all those refugees from the past in search of the future.
- Most shoppers know that only cave dwellers would pay the list price for electronics goods, for example.
- Poverty has become persistent, and apparently self-reinforcing, for millions of city dwellers, most of them black or Hispanic.
- This assistance inevitably spilled over as an increase in general prosperity for the ordinary Milanese city dweller.
- Unlike many town dwellers, farmers can at least eat well.
- Funny thing, I hadn't noticed before what a one-horse town this was.
- He himself grew up in slums, in one-horse towns, in abandoned oil fields.
- Tonight we're going to paint the town red. b. Tonight we're going to colour the city scarlet. 38a.
- Or at least run them out of town.
- Accommodation comprises 110 twin bedded bungalows and 15 Duplex Suites each with its own shady terrace and small walled garden.
- At Leicester the market place occupied the whole of the south-eastern quarter of the walled town.
- Founded in 1673, this small walled garden is the oldest botanical garden in the country after Oxford's.
- Like the people of Ferghana, its occupants were a settled people living in walled towns.
- She lives now in converted weaving cottages in Kilbarchan, a walled garden already rich in spring colours.
- The walled garden too had been carefully maintained.
- The existence of walled towns and castles created two problems.
- The house, dairy, farm buildings, walled garden and orchard show what life there was like eighty years ago.
an industrial town in the Midlandstown of the town of Norwalk, Connecticut I walked to the nearest town.► see thesaurus at city2main centre [uncountable] the business or shopping centre of a town: We’re going into town tonight to see a film. They have a small apartment in town.3people [singular] all the people who live in a particular town: The whole town turned out to watch the procession.4where you live [uncountable] the town or city where you live: Cam left town about an hour ago, so he should be out at the farm by now. I’ll be out of town for about a week. Guess who’s in town? Jodie’s sister! Do you know of a good place to eat? I’m from out of town (=from a different town). We’re moving to another part of town.5village [countable] American English several houses forming a small group around a church, shops etc SYN village British English: Rowayton is a small town of around 4,000 people.6not country the town life in towns and cities in general: Which do you prefer, the town or the country?7go to town (on something) informal to do something in a very eager or thorough way: Angela really went to town on buying things for her new house.8(out) on the town informal going to restaurants, bars, theatres etc for entertainment in the evening: Frank is taking me out for a night on the town.9town and gown used to describe the situation in which the people living in a town and the students in a town seem to be separate and opposing groups → ghost town, home town, → paint the town (red) at paint2(5)COLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + townsmall/big· I grew up in a small town in Iowa.· The nearest big town is 20 miles away.a little town· a pretty little town in the French Alpsa major town· It is one of the UK’s biggest retailers with shops in every major town.busy/bustling· The town was busy even in November.quiet· The town is quiet in the summer.· Cannigione is a quiet little town with a scattering of shops, restaurants and cafés.sleepy (=very quiet, with not much happening)· Johnson grew up in the sleepy retirement town of Asheville.a historic/ancient town· Visitors can go on a tour of this historic town.an industrial town· Thousands moved to the newly forming industrial towns to work in the mills.a seaside town· young people looking for seasonal work in seaside townsa provincial town (=one that is not near the capital)· Many provincial towns were transformed by the coming of the railway.a market town (=a town in Britain where there is a regular outdoor market)· The pretty market town of Ashbourne is only 9 miles away.somebody’s home town (=the town where someone was born)· He was buried in his home town of Leeds.a new town (=one of several towns built in Britain since 1946)· The design of Milton Keynes and other new towns proved unpopular.phrasesthe centre of town/the town centre British English, the center of town/the town center American English· The hotel was right in the center of town.the outskirts/edge of a town· It was six o'clock when she reached the outskirts of the town.