Definition of Town

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Definition of Town

Town

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.

Any number or collection of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop.

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.

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.

A township; the whole territory within certain limits, less than those of a country.

The court end of London;-- commonly with the.

The metropolis or its inhabitants; as, in winter the gentleman lives in town; in summer, in the country.

A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard.

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Town Quotations

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
Thomas Jefferson

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.
George Carlin

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
Henry David Thoreau

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
Bill Gates

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.
Will Rogers

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers

You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.
Michael Jackson

You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.
Joan Crawford

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
Billy Graham

Town Translations

town in Afrikaans is stad
town in Danish is by
town in Dutch is plaats, stadje, stad
town in Finnish is kaupunki
town in German is Stadt
town in Norwegian is by
town in Portuguese is vila, cidade
town in Spanish is ciudad
town in Swedish is stad

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