Town
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Noun
Town (plural Towns)- a settlement; an area with residential districts, shops and amenities, and its own local government; especially one larger than a village and smaller than a city
- (UK, historical) a rural settlement in which a market was held at least once a week.
- (UK) The residents,(as opposed to gown, the students etc.) of a community having a university
Adjectives for Town
mute; quaint; storm-swept; tumultuous queer; many-languaged; self-respecting terror-stricken; combustible; seven-faced drowsy; murmuring; imaginary; scenic ghapeless; provincial; breeding; sedate everyday; defenseless; cheerful; industrial; bustling; rebel; high-perched; gray; placid; peaceful; beleaguered; adjacent; toiling; xiatal; inland; pretentious; ragged; haunted; dark; majestic; resurrecting; glittering; adverse; walled; retreating; famished; prosperous; hapless; picturesque; spiry; forest-girdled; benighted; populous; burning lesser; native; festival; crude; ambitious abominable; harbor; massive; cosmopolitan fortified; insignificant; extraordinary; outlying; veritable; fated; colorful; straggling wondrous; filthy; fascinating; respective inexorable; thriving; corrupt; dirty; perm anent; petty; snow-thatched; grass-grown bleak.
Verbs for Town
abide in—; allude to—; assault—; besiege—; border—; distinguish—; evacuate—; exlend—; father—; flank—; forsake—; found—; govern—; guide—; inhabit—; invade—; loot—; make the rounds of—; parade—; people—; potter about—; reclaim—; recon-noiter—; scurry around—; set foot in—; skirt—; sojourn in—; throng—; settle in—; trek across—; trudge around—; wall—; — booms; —flourishes; —s snuggle; —springs up; —thrives; —throngs.
Thesaurus
Kreis, archbishopric, archdiocese, arrondissement, bailiwick, bishopric, borough, burgh, burghal, canton, citified, city, civic, commune, community, congressional district, constablewick, county, departement, diocese, district, downtown, duchy, electoral district, electorate, government, hamlet, hundred, interurban, magistracy, metropolis, metropolitan, metropolitan area, midtown, municipal, municipality, oblast, okrug, oppidan, parish, precinct, principality, province, region, riding, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shire, shrievalty, soke, stake, state, suburban, territory, township, uptown, urban, village, wapentake, ward
Etymology
Middle English, from Old English tūn 'enclosure, village', from Proto-Germanic *tūnan 'fence' (compare Dutch tuin ‘garden’, German Zaun, Danish/Swedish tun), from Gaulish dunon 'hill; hillfort' (compare Welsh din (“hill”), Irish dún (“fortress”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dheuh₂, *dhuh₂ 'to finish, come full circle' (compare Hittite tuhhušta 'it is finished', Latin fūnus (“burial”), Ancient Greek θνητός (thnētos, “mortal”), θάνατος (thanatos, “death”), thaneīn 'to die', Sanskrit ádhvanīt 'he vanished').
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