Definition of "town" []

• A population center that is larger than a village and smaller than a city. (noun)
• A territorial and political unit governed by a town meeting, especially in New England. (noun)
• Informal A city: New York is a big town. (noun)
• Chiefly British A rural village that has a market or fair periodically. (noun)
• The residents of a town: The whole town was upset at the news. (noun)

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• "In a college town, the relations between “town and gown” are those between the residents of the town and the students and faculty associated with the school, who in the past wore academic gowns."
• "Aigues Mortes is a dead town, and differs from Maguelonne, to be presently described, in this, that it is a dead _town_, whereas Maguelonne is only the ghost of a dead town."
• "Between the ages of ten and fifteen, Kirsty had gone to the parish school of the nearest town: it looked a village, but they always called it _the town_."