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say it: town
town is a noun meaning "an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city". It carries 4 recorded senses.
an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city
“they drive through town on their way to work”
the people living in a municipality smaller than a city
“the whole town cheered the team”
an administrative division of a county
“the town is responsible for snow removal”
United States architect who was noted for his design and construction of truss bridges (1784-1844)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for town come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.