talk of the town

Questions about talk of the town

What is another word for talk of the town?

It depends which talk of the town you mean. In the sense “idle gossip or rumor”, the synonyms are talk. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of talk of the town?

WordNet records no antonym for talk of the town. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for talk of the town come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of talk of the town

• Full entry for talk of the townAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for talk of the townWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.