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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)

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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Etymology of 'Town'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Town" Quotes from Famous Books

... it a cold teal from the marshes, and I'll warrant such a repast as you have not tasted this many a day. Because a man lives in a retired spot, it does not follow he may not be an epicure," he went on, "and in my town days I was considered a good fellow among gourmands." His eyes twinkled; he studied the new-comers a ...

— Under the Rose • Frederic Stewart Isham

... who speaks for the nation; who, with a more colossal prejudice than he had before, returns from a mass meeting of himself, and, with the effrontery that only a crowd can give, backs his opinions with forty states, and walks the streets of his native town in the uniform of all humanity. This is a kind of fool that has never been possible until these latter days. Only a very great many people, all of them working on him at once, and all of them watching every one else working at once, can produce ...

— Crowds - A Moving-Picture of Democracy • Gerald Stanley Lee

... many-coloured masses of hideous land-crabs shuffling sidewise into the cactus and shuffling on with an unearthly rustling of dead twig and fallen leaf: along the crest of the foothills and down to the little town of Siboney, lighted, bustling with preparation for the wounded in the tents; bustling at the beach with the unloading of rations, the transports moving here and there far out on the moonlighted sea. Down there were straggler, wounded soldier, teamster, ...

— Crittenden - A Kentucky Story of Love and War • John Fox, Jr.

... lead lives of barren celibacy by the consequences of the successful siege of Louisburg. But we will not sadden ourselves with these doleful thoughts, when we are to witness the triumphal entry of the victors into the surrendered town. ...

— Biographical Sketches - (From: "Fanshawe and Other Pieces") • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... from the 5-inch howitzers, which sent a half-dozen of 50-lb. Lyddite shells hurtling around the tomb and the Khalifa's quarters. Like a spouting volcano, clouds of flame, stones, and dust burst from out the city. The line of strong forts before the town and upon Tuti island had been silenced by them and the gunboats the previous day. Although the dervishes had built stout works, and had plenty of cannon and ammunition, they made a wretchedly bad stand against ...

— Khartoum Campaign, 1898 - or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan • Bennet Burleigh

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