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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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"Town house" Quotes from Famous Books

... necessaries. They are indispensable to business, to health, to mutual communication, to society, to existence. What similarity is there between the situation of a merchant with L1000 a-year, living in a comfortable town house, with an omnibus driving past his door every five minutes, a stand of cabs within call, and dining three days in the week at a club where he needs no servants of his own; and a landholder enjoying the same income, living in a country situation, with no neighbour within five miles, and having ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCLXXVI. February, 1847. Vol. LXI. • Various

... where Dorothy and Temple had last parted, was in 1646 appointed by the House of Commons for the reception of the French Ambassador. In 1665 it was the town house of Mr. Secretary Bennet, afterwards Lord Arlington. Its grounds stood much in the position of the present Arlington Street, and Evelyn speaks of it as an ill-built house, but capable of ...

— The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 • Edward Abbott Parry

... of a nobleman's town house, we passed through a maze of narrow streets; and bobbing under low archways at the imminent peril of fracturing our skulls, we arrived at the Bisheshwan Temple, which was crowded with Hindoos worshipping the Lingum, representations of which met ...

— A Journey to Katmandu • Laurence Oliphant

... poison in his tea? Men in war have burned groups of houses with the torch in anger or for revenge. Why distinguish between that and the methodical sprinkling of petroleum from a hose by one gang and the equally methodical burning of the whole town house by house with little capsules of prepared incendiary stuff? The rule always applies—but only against the opponent: never to one's self. From that attitude of mind the Prussian will never emerge. We shall, ...

— Raemaekers' Cartoons - With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers • Louis Raemaekers

... call on you at your town house, he stopped his automobile to tell me; and hearing from me that you would be back this evening, he decided to stay all night at the hotel, so that he could have a chat with you after your return, no matter at what hour ...

— The Princess Virginia • C. N. Williamson

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