Definition of town

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Town (adv. & prep.) Formerly: (a) An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. [Obs.] (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. [Obs.] (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls.

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Strong :: Strong (superl.) Solid; tough; not easily broken or injured; able to withstand violence; able to sustain attacks; not easily subdued or taken; as, a strong beam; a strong rock; a strong fortress or town..
Augustan :: Augustan (n.) Of or pertaining to the town of Augsburg.
Townpeople :: Townpeople (n.) The inhabitants of a town or city, especially in distinction from country people; townsfolk..
Kidderminster :: Kidderminster (n.) A kind of ingrain carpeting, named from the English town where formerly most of it was manufactured..
Wait :: Wait (v. i.) Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians; not used in the singular..
Malacca :: Malacca (n.) A town and district upon the seacoast of the Malay Peninsula.
Town :: Town (adv. & prep.) The court end of London;-- commonly with the.
District :: District (n.) A division of territory; a defined portion of a state, town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral, or other purposes; as, a congressional district, judicial district, land district, school district, etc..
Oppidan :: Oppidan (a.) Of or pertaining to a town.
Shell :: Shell (v. t.) To throw shells or bombs upon or into; to bombard; as, to shell a town..
Move :: Move (v. i.) To change residence; to remove, as from one house, town, or state, to another..
Autonomasy :: Autonomasy (n.) The use of a word of common or general signification for the name of a particular thing; as, He has gone to town, for, He has gone to London..
Township :: Township (n.) In surveys of the public land of the United States, a division of territory six miles square, containing 36 sections..
Folks :: Folks (n. collect. & pl.) In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe..
Bailiff :: Bailiff (n.) Originally, a person put in charge of something especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power/ of custody or care are intrusted..
Snob :: Snob (n.) A townsman.
Murenger :: Murenger (n.) One who had charge of the wall of a town, or its repairs..
Range :: Range (v.) In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles apart..
Burg :: Burg (n.) A fortified town.
Courtehouse :: Courtehouse (n.) A county town; -- so called in Virginia and some others of the Southern States.
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