Town

  • 31town — n. 1) a boom; ghost ( deserted ); jerkwater (AE; colloq.), one horse, provincial, sleepy, small; market (BE) town (they live in a sleepy, little town) 2) a company town 3) smb. s hometown 4) a county town (BE; AE has county seat) 5) (misc.) to… …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 32town — /taʊn / (say town) noun 1. a small group of houses and other buildings thought of as a place, and given a name: *the word town is employed with generosity in Australia –wa winter irving, 1977. 2. a distinct densely populated area of considerable… …

  • 33town*/*/*/ — [taʊn] noun 1) [C] a place where people live and work that is larger than a village but smaller than a city a small town[/ex] a town on the River Thames[/ex] the northern Belgian town of Onkerzele[/ex] See: city 2) [U] the town or city that you… …

    Dictionary for writing and speaking English

  • 34town — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English tūn enclosure, village, town; akin to Old High German zūn enclosure, Old Irish dún fortress Date: before 12th century 1. dialect England a cluster or aggregation of houses recognized as a distinct… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 35Town FM — Infobox Radio station name = Town FM/Town 102 airdate = October 19 2006 frequency = 102.0 MHz share = 4.0% share as of = September 2007 share source = [http://www.rajar.co.uk/listening/quarterly listening.php] area = Ipswich format = Contemporary …

    Wikipedia

  • 36town — [[t]taʊn[/t]] n. 1) gov a thickly populated area, usu. smaller than a city and larger than a village, having fixed boundaries and certain local powers of government 2) gov a densely populated area of considerable size, as a city or borough 3) gov …

    From formal English to slang

  • 37town — noun 1》 a built up area with a name, defined boundaries, and local government, that is larger than a village and generally smaller than a city.     ↘Brit. dated the chief city or town of a region. 2》 the central part of a town or city, with its… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 38town — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. hamlet, burg[h], village. See abode. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. civic, community, civil; see municipal , urban 2 . n. 1. [In the United States, a small collection of dwellings] Syn. hamlet, county… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 39town — See: GO TO TOWN, ON THE TOWN, PAINT THE TOWN RED …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 40town — See: GO TO TOWN, ON THE TOWN, PAINT THE TOWN RED …

    Dictionary of American idioms