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    [Noun]  | "town" | \ ˈtau̇n \


    1: a compactly settled area usually larger than a village but smaller than a city

    2: a compactly settled area as distinguished from surrounding rural territory

    3: a large densely populated urban area : city

    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Middle English, from Old English tūn enclosure, village, town; akin to Old High German zūn enclosure, Old Irish dún fortress;

    [Noun]  | "town car" 


    1: a 4-door automobile with a usually open driver's compartment and a separate enclosed passenger compartment

    Origin: 1906 ;

    [Noun]  | "town clerk" 


    1: a public officer charged with recording the official proceedings and vital statistics of a town

    Origin: 14th century ;

    [Noun]  | "town crier" 


    1: a town officer who makes public proclamations

    Origin: 1560 ;

    [Noun]  | "town hall" 


    1: a public building used for town-government offices and meetings

    2: an event at which a public official or political candidate addresses an audience by answering questions posed by individual members

    Origin: 15th century ;

    [Noun]  | "town house" 


    1: a usually single-family house of two or sometimes three stories that is usually connected to a similar house by a common sidewall; also : row house

    2: a house in town; specifically : the city residence of one having a country seat or having a chief residence elsewhere

    Origin: 1571 ;

    [Noun]  | "town manager" 


    1: an official appointed to direct the administration of a town government

    Origin: 1912 ;

    [Noun]  | "town meeting" 


    1: a meeting of inhabitants or taxpayers constituting the legislative authority of a town

    Origin: 1636 ;

    [Noun]  | "town centre" 


    1: the main or central part of a town

    [Noun]  | "company town" 


    1: a community that is dependent on one firm for all or most of the necessary services or functions of town life (such as employment, housing, and stores)

    Origin: 1927 ;

    [Noun]  | "town" 


    1: a thickly settled, highly populated area;


      * e.g., " ... after driving for miles with nothing but corn and wheat fields to look at, we were relieved to roll into a small town and have a bite to eat at the local diner "



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    [Noun]  | "town car" 


    [Noun]  | "town house" 


    [Noun]  | "town houses" 


    1: as in ranches, ranch houses;


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    [Noun]  | "town meeting" 


    [Noun]  | "town cars" 


    [Noun]  | "town meetings" 


    [Noun]  | "cow town" 


    1: as in Podunk;


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    [Verb]  | "go" 


    1: to move forward along a course;


      * e.g., " ... everything is going according to our plans "




    2: to leave a place often for another;


      * e.g., " ... will go on vacation at the end of the year "




    3: to be fitting or proper;


      * e.g., " ... at Mardi Gras, just about anything goes "




    [Verb]  | "go (for)" 


    1: to have a price of;


      * e.g., " ... those cars go for $25,000 "



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     [ "town" ]

    1: a really really huge wanker

      * e.g.,  ... Bodycomb Steven (to Normal Steven): 'till what am I going to wait for, town? Normal Steven: *speechless* 

     [ "town" ]

    1: A place where there lives people, and a church, a postoffice, and a place where beer is sold exists. A town is not as big as a city.

      * e.g.,  ... I buddy, let's cruise down to town. 

     [ "town" ]

    1: town/ta:n/ Pronunciation: 'taün (toun)

      * e.g.,  ... EX: The blokes who lived in the flat finished their bangers and mash, turned off the telly and took the lift down to the pavement in order to queue for the tram just like the rest of the bloody town. 

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    2: Function: noun

     [ "town" ]

    3: Etymology: Mid to low English, from Old English "tûn", group, bunch, weapon; akin to Late low High Swiss/Deutsch "zûn", oppressive enclave (literally); place where leather shorts are considered appropriate dress. Old Irish town; town

     [ "town" ]

    4: Date: before 4th century

     [ "town" ]

    5:  a. Abbr. t. T. tn. An incorporated settlement, larger than a village and smaller than a city. b. The inhabitants of such a settlement. populated area, its size being somewhere between a city and a village. The main city of a populated area. the people that comprise said population center. a cluster or clump of groups called a town: See town a group of prairie dog burrows

     [ "town" ]

    6: -on the town: to pursue entertainment or amusement (as city nightlife) especially as a relief from routine; to town around: to act in a humorous fashion like a town; what goes around comes to town: the belief that the energy a person puts out will show back up in a populated area uninvited

     [ "town" ]

    1: verb: go to town or smoke weed

      * e.g.,  ... verb: So, are you gonna town on Friday? 

     [ "town" ]

    2: noun: the place you go to go to town or smoke weed

      * e.g.,  ... noun: Let's go to town right now. 

     [ "town" ]

    1: the best suffix. sounds good in all situations, when it just fits.

      * e.g.,  ... - Fuck youtown. 

     [ "town" ]

    1: A very attractive woman

      * e.g.,  ... Chas: "Man, she is such a TOWN!" 

     [ "town" ]

    1: Lame, uncool, or not fresh. Used often as a replacement for the word 'gay,' which is very politically incorrect and used incorrectly anyway.

      * e.g.,  ... Dude. this party sucks. it's so fuckin' town. 

     [ "town" ]

    1: nagercoil is a good town

     [ "town-town" ]

    1: When somebody lives in a small village, or small town and wants to describe where they live. A town-town is a major town, that most people would know, like Hastings instead or Battle or Crowhurst, which most people would have no idea where they were.

      * e.g.,  ... Harry: Hannah, whereabouts do you live? 

     [ "Town" ]

    1: Slang we use. it's a bad word

      * e.g.,  ... "Till what am i going to wait for, town." - Jamali Maddix 

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