Town

Noun

 * 1) a settlement; an area with residential districts, shops and amenities, and its own local government; especially one larger than a village and smaller than a city
 * 2)  a rural settlement in which a market was held at least once a week.
 * 3)  The residents,(as opposed to gown:, the students etc.) of a community having a university

Adjectives for Town
mute; quaint; storm-swept; tumultuous queer; many-languaged; self-respecting terror-stricken; combustible; seven-faced drowsy; murmuring; imaginary; scenic ghapeless; provincial; breeding; sedate everyday; defenseless; cheerful; industrial; bustling; rebel; high-perched; gray; placid; peaceful; beleaguered; adjacent; toiling; xiatal; inland; pretentious; ragged; haunted; dark; majestic; resurrecting; glittering; adverse; walled; retreating; famished; prosperous; hapless; picturesque; spiry; forest-girdled; benighted; populous; burning lesser; native; festival; crude; ambitious abominable; harbor; massive; cosmopolitan fortified; insignificant; extraordinary; outlying; veritable; fated; colorful; straggling wondrous; filthy; fascinating; respective inexorable; thriving; corrupt; dirty; perm anent; petty; snow-thatched; grass-grown bleak.

Verbs for Town
abide in—; allude to—; assault—; besiege—; border—; distinguish—; evacuate—; exlend—; father—; flank—; forsake—; found—; govern—; guide—; inhabit—; invade—; loot—; make the rounds of—; parade—; people—; potter about—; reclaim—; recon-noiter—; scurry around—; set foot in—; skirt—; sojourn in—; throng—; settle in—; trek across—; trudge around—; wall—; — booms; —flourishes; —s snuggle; —springs up; —thrives; —throngs.

Thesaurus
Kreis, archbishopric, archdiocese, arrondissement, bailiwick, bishopric, borough, burgh, burghal, canton, citified, city, civic, commune, community, congressional district, constablewick, county, departement, diocese, district, downtown, duchy, electoral district, electorate, government, hamlet, hundred, interurban, magistracy, metropolis, metropolitan, metropolitan area, midtown, municipal, municipality, oblast, okrug, oppidan, parish, precinct, principality, province, region, riding, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shire, shrievalty, soke, stake, state, suburban, territory, township, uptown, urban, village, wapentake, ward

Etymology
, from tūn 'enclosure, village', from  'fence' (compare Dutch tuin ‘garden’, German Zaun, Danish/Swedish tun), from Gaulish dunon 'hill; hillfort' (compare Welsh din:, Irish dún:), from  'to finish, come full circle' (compare Hittite tuhhušta 'it is finished', Latin funus:, Ancient Greek θνητός:, θάνατος:, thaneīn 'to die', Sanskrit ádhvanīt 'he vanished').

Derived terms

 * boom town/boomtown
 * county town
 * cow town
 * cross town/cross-town/crosstown
 * downtown
 * ghost town
 * go to town
 * in town
 * jerkwater town
 * man about town
 * market town
 * new town
 * on the town
 * one-horse town
 * out of town
 * paint the town red
 * post town
 * shanty town
 * shire town
 * skip town
 * small-town
 * talk of the town
 * town and gown


 * town ball
 * town car
 * town center/town centre
 * town-crier
 * townee
 * towner
 * town gas
 * town hall/townhall
 * town house/townhouse
 * townhome
 * townie
 * townland
 * townless
 * townlet
 * town planning
 * townsfolk
 * township
 * townsman
 * town square
 * hometown
 * town twinning
 * twin town
 * uptown



Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Ainu: コタン (kotan)
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:, ,
 * Armenian: ,
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: горад
 * Bengali:
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Breton: kêr, kêrioù , kumun , kumunioù
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: မြို့
 * Catalan:
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , , , ,
 * Chuvash:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian:
 * German:, , , Städtchen
 * Greek: πόλη
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kamba:
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer: ,
 * Kikuyu:
 * Korean:, 읍


 * Kurdish: bajarok
 * Latin:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luhya: ,
 * Macedonian: ,
 * Malay:
 * Maltese:
 * Maori: tāone
 * Meru:
 * Navajo:, ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English: andefera,
 * Old French:
 * Persian:, شهرک
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Romanian:, oraşe
 * Russian:, , , местечко
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic: baile
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Roman: grad, varoš , palanka
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Taos: plòso’óna
 * Telugu: పట్టణము, పట్నము
 * Tetum:
 * Thai:, พารา,
 * Tongan:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese:, thành phố
 * Volapük: zif
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish:

Anagrams

 * nowt
 * wont, won't, wo'n't