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Town   /taʊn/   Listen
noun
Town  n.  
1.
Formerly:
(a)
An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. (Obs.)
(b)
The whole of the land which constituted the domain. (Obs.)
(c)
A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls. (Obs.)
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. (Eng.)
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."
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. (U. S.)
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." "Stunned with his giddy larum half the town." Note: The same form of expressions is used in regard to other populous towns.
8.
A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard. (Prov. Eng. & Scot.) Note: 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 (Bot.), the garden cress, or peppergrass.
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. (U. S.)
Town talk, the common talk of a place; the subject or topic of common conversation.





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"Town" Quotes from Famous Books



... casual inspection, and considered myself as utterly disengaged from its consequences.' He adds:—'I hope some time in the next week to have all rectified.' The letter of May 20 shews that on his return to town he lost little time, if any, ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... she has not had any time to annoy him to-day. I think it can hardly be that. Did not your brother return to town yesterday? I stayed away on purpose, because I feared that on his last day you would not care to be disturbed; but isn't it very likely that Major O'Shaughnessy is depressed at being ...
— Pixie O'Shaughnessy • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... just in time for, after endeavouring to fool us for the past three months, by negotiations never meant to come to anything, the enemy are now advancing in great force, and are within a few miles of the town. So we are likely to have hot work of it for from all accounts, they have got nearly as large an army together as Bandoola had. I don't know whether they have learned anything from his misfortunes, but I am bound ...
— On the Irrawaddy - A Story of the First Burmese War • G. A. Henty
... confidence into a profound reaction. Certainty gave place to complete distrust. Rumor gained ground. The exodus increased. Where formerly only those who could do so without great sacrifice or inconvenience had left town, now people were beginning to cut loose at any cost. Men resigned their positions in order to get their families away; others began to arrange their affairs as best they might, as though for a long vacation. As yet panic had not appeared openly in the light of day, but she lurked ...
— The Sign at Six • Stewart Edward White
... left Gray comfortably in bed with his leg set, and having received reassuring opinions from nurse and doctor: and the first alarm and apprehension being removed, there was a certain feeling of importance in her position as wife of the injured man, and excitement at a visit to the country town, both ways in a cart, which does not happen often ...
— Zoe • Evelyn Whitaker


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