town /town/

1. An urban area bigger or less rural than a village, with some level of local government and defined boundaries
2. The principal town of a district, esp (in SE England) London
3. An urban community
4. The permanent residents of a town, esp as opposed to the members of its university
5. The business or shopping centre
6. Urban communities generically
7. A municipal or political division of a county (which may include villages and towns in the ordinary sense), a township (N American)
8. Orig, an enclosure (obsolete)
9. /tŭn/ a farmstead or similar group of houses (Scot)

1. Of a town
2. Urban

towneeˈ or towˈnie noun (often derogatory)

An inhabitant of a town, not a member of the university or a country-dweller

townˈish adjective

Characteristic of town as opposed to country

townˈless adjective

townˈling noun

A town dweller

townˈly adjective

Townish

townˈship noun

1. An urban settlement inhabited by poor black people (S Afr)
2. A subdivision of a county or province (N American)
3. An administrative district (N American)
4. A thirty-six square mile block of public land (N American)
5. A site for a town (Aust)
6. A small settlement (Aust)
7. The territory or district of a town
8. The corporation of a town
9. A village, a community or local division
10. A parish (historical)
11. A farm in joint tenancy (Scot)
12. The people living in a township

townˈy noun

1. An inhabitant of a town
2. A fellow inhabitant

Townish

town clerk noun

1. (in Britain until 1974) the secretary and legal adviser of a town
2. The official responsible for town records (US)

town council noun

The elected governing body in a town

town councillor noun

town crier noun (historical)

An official who makes public proclamations in a town

town dweller noun

town end noun

The end of the main street

town (or towns) gas noun

Usu a mixture of coal gas and carburetted water gas, made and supplied for domestic or industrial use (now largely superseded by natural gas)

town hall noun

1. A building for the official business of a town, usu with public rooms
2. A townhouse

townˈhouse noun (chiefly Scot)

A town hall

town house noun

1. A house in town belonging to the owner of another in the country
2. A fashionable, usu terraced urban house, esp typically with a garage on the ground floor and living room above

townˈland noun (chiefly historical)

1. The land forming a manor
2. (in Ireland) a sub-parochial land division, or a township
3. (in Scotland) the enclosure round a farm

town meeting noun

(in New England) a meeting of the voters of a town, esp to transact public business

town planner noun

town planning noun

The deliberate designing of the building and growth of towns to avoid haphazard and speculative building

town'sˈ-bairn noun (Scot)

A native of a town, esp one's own

townˈscape noun

1. A portion of a town which the eye can view at once
2. A picture of it
3. The design or building of all or part of a town

transitive verb and intransitive verb

To design or build a town or part of a town

townˈscaping noun

townsˈfolk plural noun

The people of a town

townˈskip noun (Dickens)

A city urchin

townsˈman or townsˈwoman noun

An inhabitant or fellow inhabitant of a town

townsˈpeople plural noun

Townsfolk

town talk noun

1. The general talk of a town
2. The subject of common conversation

go to town (informal)

To act, behave or perform enthusiastically, with thoroughness, without restraint

on the town

Out to amuse oneself in town

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