Look up: town

1. town
   [n] - an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city 2. [n] - the people living in a municipality smaller than a city
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2. town
   Many towns grew up near to forts, which could be seen from their names. If a place name included the words chester or cester, it was because it was on the site of a Roman fort, for example, Chester, Gloucester, and Manchester. The word chester came from castrum, the Roman word for a fort. Most towns would also have shops and a market place called a…
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3. town
   urban settlement which is larger and more regularly built up than a village and which has a more independent form of local government Category: Building industry
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4. Town
   Town noun [ Middle English toun , tun , Anglo-Saxon tun inclosure, fence, village, town; akin to Dutch tuin a garden, German zaun a hadge, fence, Old High German zun , Icelandic tun an inclosure, homest...
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5. town
   1. Formerly: An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. The whole of the land which constituted the domain. A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls. ... 2. Any number or collection of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a ...
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6. town
   townspeople noun the people living in a municipality smaller than a city; `the whole town cheered the team`
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7. town
   noun an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city; `they drive through town on their way to work`
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8. Town
   • (adv. & prep.) A township; the whole territory within certain limits, less than those of a country. • (adv. & prep.) A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard. • (adv. & prep.) The metropolis or its inhabitants; as, in winter the gentleman lives in town; in summer, in the count...
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9. town
   (from the article `Europe, history of`) ...for the future: it was a seaport and capital, but with a solid base in manufacturing, trade, and finance. Like Naples, it was a magnet for the ... Wide, paved squares flanked the palaces, and around them spread extensive towns, which by this time if not earlier seem to have been unwalled. ... ...
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10. town
    town, in the United States. In the New England states the town is the basic unit of local government. The New England town government's unique feature is the town meeting, much praised as a nearly pure form of democracy. At the annual meeting of voters, town officers are elected and local issues suc...
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11. Town
    Town is Jamaican slang for Kingston.
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12. Town
    Town is Jamaican slang for Kingston.
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13. Town
    Town was the name given to a village which was surrounded by a delimiting and protective hedge. The word town derives from the Anglo-Saxon word tun, meaning a hedge or enclosure.
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14. Town
    A `town` is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more t...
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15. Town
    (China) When referring to political divisions of China, `town` is the standard English translation of the Chinese 鎮 (simplified: 镇; pinyin: zhèn; Wade-Giles chen⁴). It is a fourth-level administrative unit, i.e. one of the units into which counties and district...
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16. Town
    (New Jersey) A `Town` in the context of New Jersey local government refers to one of five `types` and one of eleven `forms` of municipal government. While `Town` is often used as a shorthand to refer to a Township, the two are not the same. The `Town Act of 1895` allowed any mun...
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17. Town
    (Northern Uproar song) "`Town`" is a song by Northern Uproar, released from their album Northern Uproar. It reached number 48 on the UK Singles Chart in 1996. Track listing: #"Town" #"Memories" #"Kicks" #"I Am The Cosmos"
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