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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. Related Definitions: Also, An, And, Any, As, Bishop, Body, By, Certain, City, Closely, Collection, Commonly, Communities, Constituted, Country, Court, Distinction, Domain, Dwelling, End, Farm, Farmstead, Farmyard, For, Formerly, From, Gentleman, Homestead, Houses, In, Inclosed, Inclosure, Incorporated, Is, Land, Large, Lay, Legislature, Less, Lives, London, Loosely, Lord, Manor, Market, Mere, Metropolis, Not, Number, Of, Or, Place, Populated, Regular, Repairing, Resident, Rural, See, Send, Summer, Surrounded, Tax, Territory, Than, The, Those, To, Town, Township, Two, Village, Voted, Whether, Which, Whole, Winter, With, Within

Town Quotations Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us. James E. Jones A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't. Burt Bacharach 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 Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town. George Carlin 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

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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