Definitions for Town

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Town town

Spelling: [toun]

IPA: /taʊn/

Town is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in Town (notw).

Definitions for Town

noun

1. a thickly populated area, usually smaller than a city and larger than a village, having fixed boundaries and certain local powers of government.
2. a densely populated area of considerable size, as a city or borough.
3. (especially in New England) a municipal corporation with less elaborate organization and powers than a city.
4. (in most U.S. states except those of New England) a township.
5. any urban area, as contrasted with its surrounding countryside.
6. the inhabitants of a town; townspeople; citizenry.
7. the particular town or city in mind or referred to:
8. a nearby or neighboring city; the chief town or city in a district:
9. the main business or shopping area in a town or city; downtown.
10. British. a village or hamlet in which a periodic market or fair is held. any village or hamlet.
11. Scot. a farmstead.
12. Ithiel [ith-ee-uh l] /ˈɪθ i əl/ (Show IPA), 1784–1844, U.S. architect.

Idioms

1. go to town, Informal. to be successful. to do well, efficiently, or speedily: to lose restraint or inhibition; overindulge.
2. on the town, Informal. in quest of entertainment in a city's nightclubs, bars, etc.; out to have a good time: supported by the public charity of the state or community; on relief.
3. paint the town. paint (def 16).

adjective

1. of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or belonging to a town:

Origin of Town

before 900; Middle English toun, tun, Old English tūn walled or fenced place, courtyard, farmstead, village; cognate with Old Norse tūn homefield, German Zaun fence, Old Irish dún fort

Examples for Town

That will leave troops in a lurch when the F-35 eventually becomes the only game in town.

One time he landed in Pocatello when there wa'n't but one game in town.

The town, known in Arabic as Ayn al-Arab, is so significant to ISIS that the group calls it Ayn al-Islam.

Dollars are worth more apiece in New York than any town I've ever been in.

Some of the streets in this part of the town have seen large scale-destruction.

Their bodies were later found incinerated and buried in mass graves outside of town.

He never could find out what was "going on" to bring so many folks into town.

The sheriff charged them with truancy, and then he and his officers ran them out of town.

But the house and the town grated harshly now upon the young man.

I need cheerfulness and rest for a long time after this day in town.