town meeting

1. 1.

   government of a town by an assembly of the qualified voters

   Broaderlocal government
2. 2.

   a meeting of the inhabitants of a town

   Broadermeeting

Questions about town meeting

What does town meeting mean?

town meeting means "government of a town by an assembly of the qualified voters". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is town meeting a common word?

town meeting is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.