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Words people most associate with “town”:

  1. city,
  2. village,
  3. down,
  4. hall,
  5. house

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Noun (4 meanings)

1. an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city.

town

Example:
  • “they drive through town on their way to work”
town is a type of:
  • municipality (noun) - an urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government
types of town:
  • Main Street (noun) - any small town (or the people who inhabit it)
  • boom town (noun) - a town enjoying sudden prosperity
  • burg (noun) - colloquial American term for a town
  • cow town, cowtown (noun) - a small town in a cattle-raising area of western North America
  • ghost town (noun) - a deserted settlement (especially in western United States)
  • hometown (noun) - the town (or city) where you grew up or where you have your principal residence
  • market town (noun) - a (usually small) town where a public market is held at stated times
instances of town:
  • Aalst (noun) - a town in central Belgium
  • Aberdare (noun) - a mining town in southern Wales
  • Aberdeen (noun) - a town in northeastern Maryland
  • Aberdeen (noun) - a town in northeastern South Dakota
  • Aberdeen (noun) - a town in western Washington
  • Abilene (noun) - a town in central Kansas to the west of Topeka
  • Abydos (noun) - an ancient Greek colony on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles
  • Acre, Akko, Akka, Accho (noun) - a town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean
  • Actium (noun) - an ancient town on a promontory in western Greece
  • Agrigento, Acragas (noun) - a town in Italy in southwestern Sicily near the coast
  • Albany (noun) - a town in southwest Georgia
  • Alexandria (noun) - a town in Louisiana on the Red River
  • Alpena (noun) - a town in northern Michigan on an arm of Lake Huron
  • Altoona (noun) - a town in central Pennsylvania
  • Antioch, Antakya, Antakiya (noun) - a town in southern Turkey
  • Anzio (noun) - a town of central Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea
  • Appleton (noun) - a town in eastern Wisconsin
  • Asheville (noun) - a town in western North Carolina in the Blue Ridge Mountains to the west of Charlotte
  • Athens (noun) - a university town in northeast Georgia
  • Athens (noun) - a town in southeast Ohio
  • Austerlitz (noun) - a town in Czech Republic
  • Avignon (noun) - a town in southeastern France on the Rhone River
  • Ayr (noun) - a port in southwestern Scotland
  • Bangor (noun) - a town in southeastern Northern Ireland
  • Bangor (noun) - a university town in northwestern Wales on the Menai Strait
  • Bangor (noun) - a town in east central Maine on the Penobscot River
  • Barstow (noun) - a town in southeastern California
  • Bartlesville (noun) - a town in northeastern Oklahoma
  • Bath (noun) - a town in southwestern England on the River Avon
  • Batna (noun) - a town in north central Algeria
  • Bellingham (noun) - a town in northwestern Washington on a bay near the Canadian border
  • Bemidji (noun) - a town in northern Minnesota
  • Bend (noun) - a town in central Oregon at the eastern foot of the Cascade Range
  • Bennington (noun) - a town in southwestern Vermont
  • Bethlehem, Bayt Lahm, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Bethlehem-Judah (noun) - a small town near Jerusalem on the West Bank of the Jordan River
  • Bethlehem (noun) - a town in eastern Pennsylvania on the Lehigh River to the northwest of Philadelphia
  • Biloxi (noun) - an old town in southern Mississippi on the Gulf of Mexico
  • Blackpool (noun) - a resort town in Lancashire in northwestern England on the Irish Sea
  • Blacksburg (noun) - a university town in southwestern Virginia (west of Roanoke) in the Allegheny Mountains
  • Bloomington (noun) - a university town in south central Indiana
  • Boulder (noun) - a town in north central Colorado
  • Bowling Green (noun) - a town in southern Kentucky
  • Bozeman (noun) - a town in southwestern Montana
  • Brattleboro (noun) - a town in southeastern Vermont on the Connecticut River
  • Brunswick (noun) - a town in southeast Georgia near the Atlantic coast
  • Brunswick (noun) - a university town in southwestern Maine
  • Bryan (noun) - a town of east central Texas
  • Butte (noun) - a town in southwestern Montana
  • Cairo (noun) - a town at the southern tip of Illinois at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers
  • Calais (noun) - a town in northern France on the Strait of Dover that serves as a ferry port to England
  • Canterbury (noun) - a town in Kent in southeastern England
  • Cape Girardeau (noun) - a town in southeast Missouri
  • Carbondale (noun) - a town in southern Illinois
  • Carlsbad (noun) - a town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border
  • Chablis (noun) - a town in north central France noted for white Burgundy wines
  • Chalcedon, Kadikoy (noun) - a former town on the Bosporus (now part of Istanbul)
  • Champaign (noun) - a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Urbana
  • Chapel Hill (noun) - a town in central North Carolina
  • Chartres (noun) - a town in northern France that is noted for its Gothic Cathedral
  • Cherbourg (noun) - a port town in northwestern France on the English Channel
  • Churchill (noun) - a Canadian town in northern Manitoba on Hudson Bay
  • Clinton (noun) - a town in east central Iowa
  • Coeur d'Alene (noun) - a town in the northern panhandle of Idaho
  • Columbia (noun) - a university town in central Missouri
  • Columbia (noun) - a town in west central Tennessee
  • Columbus (noun) - a town in eastern Mississippi near the border with Alabama
  • Concord (noun) - town in eastern Massachusetts near Boston where the first battle of the American Revolution was fought
  • Cooperstown (noun) - a small town in east central New York
  • Council Bluffs (noun) - a town in southwest Iowa on the Missouri River across from Omaha
  • Cuzco, Cusco (noun) - a town in the Andes in southern Peru
  • Dawson (noun) - a town in northwestern Canada in the Yukon on the Yukon River
  • Daytona Beach (noun) - a resort town in northeast Florida on the Atlantic coast
  • Decatur (noun) - a town in northern Alabama on the Tennessee River
  • Del Rio (noun) - a town in southwest Texas on the Rio Grande to the west of San Antonio
  • Dhahran (noun) - an oil town in eastern Saudi Arabia on an inlet from the Persian Gulf
  • Djanet (noun) - a desert town in southeastern Algeria
  • Dodge City (noun) - a town of southwestern Kansas on the Arkansas River
  • Dubuque (noun) - a town in eastern Iowa on the Mississippi River
  • Dunkirk, Dunkerque (noun) - a seaport in northern France on the North Sea
  • East Saint Louis (noun) - a town in southwest Illinois on the Mississippi across from Saint Louis
  • Eau Claire (noun) - a town in west central Wisconsin
  • El Aaium (noun) - a town in Morocco near the Atlantic coast
  • Elmont (noun) - a town on Long Island in New York
  • Enid (noun) - a town in north central Oklahoma
  • Entebbe (noun) - a town in southern Uganda on Lake Victoria
  • Eureka (noun) - a town in northwest California on an arm of the Pacific Ocean
  • Farmington (noun) - a residential town in central Connecticut
  • Farmington (noun) - a town in northwestern New Mexico
  • Fayetteville (noun) - a university town in northwestern Arkansas in the Ozarks
  • Fayetteville (noun) - a town in south central North Carolina
  • Fayetteville (noun) - a town in central West Virginia on the New River
  • Flagstaff (noun) - a town in north central Arizona
  • Florence (noun) - a town in northeast South Carolina
  • Fort Myers (noun) - a town in southwest Florida
  • Fort Smith (noun) - a town in western Arkansas on the Arkansas River at the Oklahoma border
  • Frederick (noun) - a town in northern Maryland to the west of Baltimore
  • Fredericksburg (noun) - a town in northeastern Virginia on the Rappahannock River
  • Gadsden (noun) - an industrial town in north central Alabama
  • Gainesville (noun) - a university town in north central Florida
  • Gallup (noun) - a town in northwestern New Mexico near the Arizona border
  • Galveston (noun) - a town in southeast Texas on Galveston Island
  • Gettysburg (noun) - a small town in southern Pennsylvania
  • Gloucester (noun) - a town in northeastern Massachusetts on Cape Ann to the northeast of Boston
  • Goldsboro (noun) - a town that is a major tobacco center in eastern North Carolina
  • Grand Island (noun) - a town in south central Nebraska
  • Great Falls (noun) - a town in central Montana on the Missouri river
  • Greenville (noun) - a town in western Mississippi on the Mississippi River to the north of Vicksburg
  • Greenville (noun) - a town in northwest South Carolina in the Piedmont
  • Hagerstown (noun) - a town in northern Maryland
  • Hameln, Hamelin (noun) - a town in northern Germany (near Hanover) that is famous as the setting for the legend of the Pied Piper
  • Hannibal (noun) - a town in northeast Missouri on the Mississippi River
  • Harpers Ferry, Harper's Ferry (noun) - a small town in northeastern West Virginia that was the site of a raid in 1859 by the abolitionist John Brown and his followers who captured an arsenal that was located there
  • Hastings (noun) - a town in East Sussex just to the south of the place where the battle of Hastings took place
  • Hattiesburg (noun) - a town in southeast Mississippi
  • Hays (noun) - a town in central Kansas
  • Hershey (noun) - an industrial town to the east of Harrisburg
  • Hibbing (noun) - a town in northeastern Minnesota in the Mesabi Range
  • Hilo (noun) - a town in Hawaii on the island of Hawaii
  • Hippo, Hippo Regius (noun) - an ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria
  • Hohenlinden (noun) - a town in Bavaria (near Munich)
  • Hot Springs (noun) - a town in west central Arkansas
  • Houghton (noun) - a town in northwest Michigan on the Upper Peninsula
  • Idaho Falls (noun) - a town in southeastern Idaho on the Snake River
  • Interlaken (noun) - a popular resort town in the Alps in west central Switzerland
  • Ithaca (noun) - a college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga
  • Jackson (noun) - a town in south central Michigan
  • Jackson (noun) - a town in western Tennessee
  • Jackson (noun) - a town in western Wyoming
  • Jalalabad (noun) - a town in eastern Afghanistan (east of Kabul)
  • Johnson City (noun) - a town in northeastern Tennessee
  • Jonesboro (noun) - a town in northeast Arkansas
  • Kalamazoo (noun) - a town in southwest Michigan
  • Kennewick (noun) - a town in southern Washington on the Columbia River
  • Key West (noun) - a town on the westernmost of the Florida keys in the Gulf of Mexico
  • Kingston (noun) - a town in southeast Ontario on Lake Ontario near the head of the Saint Lawrence River
  • Kingston (noun) - a town on the Hudson River in New York
  • Klamath Falls (noun) - a town in southern Oregon near the California border
  • Knossos, Cnossos, Cnossus (noun) - an ancient town on Crete where Bronze Age culture flourished from about 2000 BC to 1400 BC
  • La Crosse (noun) - a town in western Wisconsin on the Mississippi River
  • Lafayette (noun) - a university town in west central Indiana on the Wabash River
  • Lafayette (noun) - a town in south central Louisiana
  • Lander (noun) - a town in central Wyoming
  • Laramie (noun) - a university town in southeast Wyoming
  • Las Cruces (noun) - a town in southern New Mexico on the Rio Grande
  • Lawrence (noun) - a town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River
  • Lawton (noun) - a town in southwest Oklahoma
  • Lewiston (noun) - a town in northwestern Idaho
  • Lewiston (noun) - a town in southwestern Maine to the north of Portland
  • Lexington (noun) - town in eastern Massachusetts near Boston where the first battle of the American Revolution was fought
  • Los Alamos (noun) - a town in north central New Mexico
  • Lubavitch (noun) - a town in Belarus that was the center of the Chabad movement for a brief period during the 19th century
  • Lufkin (noun) - a town in eastern Texas
  • Mankato (noun) - a town in southern Minnesota
  • Mansfield (noun) - a town in north central Ohio
  • Mariehamn, Maarianhamina (noun) - a town that is the chief port of the Aland islands
  • Marquette (noun) - a town on Lake Superior on the Upper Peninsula in northwest Michigan
  • Mason City (noun) - a town in north central Iowa
  • Massawa (noun) - a port town in Eritrea on an inlet of the Red Sea
  • McAlester (noun) - a town in southeastern Oklahoma
  • McAllen (noun) - a town in southern Texas on the Rio Grande
  • Medford (noun) - town in northeastern Massachusetts
  • Medford (noun) - a town in southwestern Oregon
  • Melbourne (noun) - a resort town in east central Florida
  • Meridian (noun) - a town in eastern Mississippi
  • Midland (noun) - a town in west central Texas
  • Missoula (noun) - a university town in western Montana
  • Moline (noun) - a town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River
  • Monroe (noun) - a town in north central Louisiana
  • Monroe (noun) - a town of southeast Michigan on Lake Erie
  • Monte Carlo (noun) - a town and popular resort in the principality of Monaco
  • Monterey (noun) - a town in western California to the south of San Francisco on a peninsula at the southern end of Monterey Bay
  • Morgan City (noun) - a town in southeast Louisiana to the south of Baton Rouge
  • Morristown (noun) - a town in northern New Jersey where the Continental Army spent two winters
  • Muncie (noun) - a town in east central Indiana
  • Muskogee (noun) - a town in eastern Oklahoma on the Arkansas River
  • Nag Hammadi (noun) - a town in Upper Egypt
  • Nampa (noun) - a town in southwestern Idaho
  • Nanaimo (noun) - a town in southwestern British Columbia on Vancouver Island to the west of Vancouver
  • Naseby (noun) - a village in western Northamptonshire
  • Natchez (noun) - a town in southwest Mississippi on the Mississippi River
  • Nazareth (noun) - a historic town in northern Israel that is mentioned in the Gospels as the home of Joseph and Mary
  • New Brunswick (noun) - a university town in central New Jersey
  • New London (noun) - a town in southeastern Connecticut near Long Island Sound
  • Newburgh (noun) - a town on the Hudson River in New York
  • Nogales (noun) - a town in northern Mexico on the border of Arizona
  • Nogales (noun) - a town in Arizona on the Mexican border opposite Nogales, Mexico
  • Nome (noun) - a town in western Alaska on the southern coast of the Seward Peninsula
  • North Platte (noun) - a town in west central Nebraska on the Platte River
  • Ogden (noun) - a town in northern Utah settled by Mormons
  • Orono (noun) - a university town in east central Maine on the Penobscot River to the north of Bangor
  • Ottumwa (noun) - a town in southeast Iowa
  • Owensboro (noun) - a town in northwestern Kentucky on the Ohio River
  • Oxford (noun) - a university town in northern Mississippi
  • Paducah (noun) - a town in western Kentucky on the Ohio River
  • Palm Beach (noun) - a resort town in southeast Florida on an island on the Atlantic coast
  • Palo Alto (noun) - a university town in California
  • Panama City (noun) - a resort and fishing town on the Gulf of Mexico in northwest Florida
  • Paris (noun) - a town in northeastern Texas
  • Pensacola (noun) - a town in extreme northwest Florida
  • Petersburg (noun) - a town in southeastern Virginia (south of Richmond)
  • Pilsen, Plzen (noun) - a town in Czech Republic where Pilsner beer originated
  • Pine Bluff (noun) - a town in southeast central Arkansas on the Arkansas River
  • Pittsfield (noun) - a town in western Massachusetts
  • Plataea (noun) - a former town in Boeotia
  • Plymouth (noun) - a town in Massachusetts founded by Pilgrims in 1620
  • Pocatello (noun) - a university town in southeastern Idaho
  • Poplar Bluff (noun) - a town in southeast Missouri
  • Portsmouth (noun) - a port town in southeastern New Hampshire on the Atlantic Ocean
  • Prescott (noun) - a town in central Arizona
  • Princeton (noun) - a university town in central New Jersey
  • Rapid City (noun) - a town in southwestern South Dakota in the eastern part of the Black Hills
  • Redding (noun) - a town in north central California on the Sacramento River
  • Reggane (noun) - a town in central Algeria
  • Rochester (noun) - a town in southeast Minnesota
  • Rock Island (noun) - a town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River
  • Rock Springs (noun) - a town of southwest Wyoming near the Utah border
  • Roswell (noun) - a town in southeast New Mexico
  • Rutland (noun) - a town in central Vermont
  • Saginaw (noun) - a town in east central Michigan on an arm of Lake Huron
  • Saint Cloud, St. Cloud (noun) - a town in central Minnesota on the Mississippi River
  • Saint Joseph, St. Joseph (noun) - a town in northwest Missouri on the Missouri River
  • Salina (noun) - a town in central Kansas
  • San Angelo (noun) - a town in west central Texas
  • San Mateo (noun) - a town in California to the south of San Francisco
  • San Pablo (noun) - a town in western California to the north of Oakland on an arm of San Francisco Bay
  • Santa Barbara (noun) - a town in southwestern California on the Pacific Ocean
  • Santa Cruz (noun) - a town in western California on Monterey Bay
  • Santa Maria del Tule (noun) - a town in southeastern Mexico near Oaxaca
  • Saqqara, Saqqarah, Sakkara (noun) - a town in northern Egypt
  • Sarasota (noun) - a town in west central Florida on the Gulf of Mexico
  • Saratoga Springs (noun) - a town in eastern New York State famed for its spa and its horse racing
  • Sault Sainte Marie (noun) - a town of southern Ontario opposite northern Michigan
  • Sedalia (noun) - a town in east central Missouri
  • Selma (noun) - a town in central Alabama on the Alabama river
  • Sherman (noun) - a town in northeastern Texas near the Oklahoma border
  • Silver City (noun) - a town in southwestern New Mexico
  • Sitka (noun) - a town in southeastern Alaska that was the capital of Russian America and served as the capital of Alaska from 1867 until 1906
  • Skagway (noun) - a town in southeastern Alaska at the northern end of the Inside Passage
  • Stagira, Stagirus (noun) - an ancient town of Greece where Aristotle was born
  • Stratford-on-Avon, Stratford-upon-Avon (noun) - a town in central England on the River Avon
  • Sun Valley (noun) - a winter sports resort in south central Idaho
  • Sunderland (noun) - a port and industrial city in northeastern England
  • Superior (noun) - a town in northwest Wisconsin on Lake Superior across from Duluth
  • Taos (noun) - an artist colony in northern New Mexico
  • Tara (noun) - a village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin)
  • Texarkana (noun) - a town in southwest Arkansas on the Texas border adjacent to Texarkana, Texas
  • Texarkana (noun) - a town in northeast Texas adjacent to Texarkana, Arkansas
  • Thule (noun) - a town in northwestern Greenland
  • Timgad (noun) - an ancient town founded by the Romans
  • Timimoun (noun) - a town in central Algeria in the Atlas Mountains
  • Tivoli, Tibur (noun) - a town twenty miles to the east of Rome (Tibur is the ancient name)
  • Traverse City (noun) - a town in northern Michigan on an arm of Lake Michigan
  • Tupelo (noun) - a town in northeast Mississippi
  • Tuscaloosa (noun) - a university town in west central Alabama
  • Tuskegee (noun) - a town in eastern Alabama
  • Twin Falls (noun) - a town on the Snake River in south central Idaho near the Twin Falls
  • Tyler (noun) - a town in northeast Texas
  • Urbana (noun) - a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Champaign
  • Valdosta (noun) - a town in southern Georgia near the Florida border
  • Valenciennes (noun) - a town in northeastern France long noted for its lace industry
  • Vancouver (noun) - a town in southwestern Washington on the Columbia River across from Portland, Oregon
  • Viborg (noun) - a town of Denmark in north central Jutland
  • Vichy (noun) - a town in central France (south of Paris) noted for hot mineral springs
  • Vicksburg (noun) - a town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the Mississippi River to the west of Jackson
  • Victoria (noun) - a town in southeast Texas to the southeast of San Antonio
  • Vidalia (noun) - a town in central Georgia
  • Vienne (noun) - a town in south central France where is 1311-1313 the Roman Catholic Church held one of its councils
  • Virginia (noun) - a town in northeastern Minnesota in the heart of the Mesabi Range
  • Wagga Wagga (noun) - a town on the Murrumbidgee River in New South Wales
  • Wagram (noun) - a town in northeastern Austria
  • Walla Walla (noun) - a town in southeastern Washington near the Oregon border
  • Waterloo (noun) - a town in central Belgium where in 1815 Napoleon met his final defeat
  • Watertown (noun) - a town in northern New York
  • Watertown (noun) - a town in southeastern Wisconsin
  • Wausau (noun) - a town in north central Wisconsin
  • West Palm Beach (noun) - a town in southeast Florida on the mainland opposite Palm Beach
  • Williamstown (noun) - a town in northwestern Massachusetts
  • Wilmington (noun) - a town in southeastern North Carolina on the Cape Fear River
  • Yakima (noun) - a town in south central Washington
  • Yellowknife (noun) - a town in the Northwest Territories in northern Canada on the Great Slave Lake
  • Yuma (noun) - a town in southwestern Arizona on the Colorado River and the California border
parts of town:
town is derivationally related to:
  • township, town (noun) - an administrative division of a county

2. the people living in a municipality smaller than a city.

town, townspeople, townsfolk

Example:
  • “the whole town cheered the team”
town is a type of:
  • municipality (noun) - people living in a town or city having local self-government
types of town:
  • borough (noun) - an English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament

3. an administrative division of a county.

township, town

Example:
  • “the town is responsible for snow removal”
town is a type of:
town is derivationally related to:
  • town (noun) - an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city
  • township, town (noun) - an administrative division of a county

4. United States architect who was noted for his design and construction of truss bridges (1784-1844).

Town, Ithiel Town

town is a type of:
  • architect, designer (noun) - someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)