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- 1. an urban area that has a name, defined boundaries, and local government, and that is generally larger than a village and smaller than a city.
1. a. : a compactly settled area usually larger than a village but smaller than a city. b. : a compactly settled area as distinguished from surrounding rural territory. c. : a large densely populated urban area : city. d. : an English village having a periodic fair or market. 2. : a particular town or city under consideration.
A town is an area where people live that's bigger than a village and smaller than a city. A town has a specific boundary, a name, and (usually) its own government. A town is essentially a small city.
a place where people live and work, containing many houses, shops, places of work, places of entertainment, etc., and usually larger than a village but smaller than a city: a seaside / coastal town. a fishing / mining / industrial town. He was born in the small town of Castleford, in Yorkshire.
noun. a thickly populated area, usually smaller than a city and larger than a village, having fixed boundaries and certain local powers of government. a densely populated area of considerable size, as a city or borough.
Definition of town noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. town. noun. /taʊn/ Idioms. [countable, uncountable] a place with many houses, shops, etc. where people live and work. It is larger than a village but smaller than a city. The nearest town is ten miles away. a university/seaside/market town. in a town I live in a small town.
3 days ago · A town is a place with streets and buildings, where people live and work. Towns are larger than neighborhoods and smaller than cities. In informal English, cities are sometimes called towns.
n. 1. (Human Geography) a. a densely populated urban area, typically smaller than a city and larger than a village, having some local powers of government and a fixed boundary. b. ( as modifier ): town life. urban. 2. (Human Geography) a city, borough, or other urban area.
the particular town or city in mind or referred to: living on the outskirts of town; to be out of town. a nearby or neighboring city; the chief town or city in a district: I am staying at a friend's apartment in town.
6 days ago · Town, human settlement that is smaller than a city but bigger than a village. The word town comes from the Old English tūn, which had a variety of meanings, among them “enclosure” and “group of houses.”
A town is a type of a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
