English > town: 4 senses > noun 1, location| Meaning | An urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city. |
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| Example | "they drive through town on their way to work" |
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| Instances | Aalst | A town in central Belgium |
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| Aberdare | A mining town in southern Wales |
| Aberdeen | A town in northeastern Maryland |
| Aberdeen | A town in northeastern South Dakota |
| Aberdeen | A town in western Washington |
| Abilene | A town in central Kansas to the west of Topeka |
| Abydos | An ancient Greek colony on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles |
| Acre, Akko, Akka, Accho | A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean |
| Actium | An ancient town on a promontory in western Greece |
| Agrigento, Acragas | A town in Italy in southwestern Sicily / Sicily near the coast |
| Albany | A town in southwest Georgia |
| Alexandria | A town in Louisiana on the Red River |
| Alpena | A town in northern Michigan on an arm of Lake Huron |
| Altoona | A town in central Pennsylvania |
| Antioch, Antakya, Antakiya | A town in southern Turkey |
| Anzio | A town of central Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea |
| Appleton | A town in eastern Wisconsin |
| Asheville | A town in western North Carolina in the Blue Ridge Mountains to the west of Charlotte |
| Athens | A university town in northeast Georgia |
| Athens | A town in southeast Ohio |
| Austerlitz | A town in Czech Republic |
| Avignon | A town in southeastern France on the Rhone River |
| Ayr | A port in southwestern Scotland |
| Bangor | A town in southeastern Northern Ireland |
| Bangor | A university town in northwestern Wales on the Menai Strait |
| Bangor | A town in east central Maine on the Penobscot River |
| Barstow | A town in southeastern California |
| Bartlesville | A town in northeastern Oklahoma |
| Bath | A town in southwestern England on the River Avon |
| Batna | A town in north central Algeria |
| Bellingham | A town in northwestern Washington on a bay near the Canadian border |
| Bemidji | A town in northern Minnesota |
| Bend | A town in central Oregon at the eastern foot of the Cascade Range |
| Bennington | A town in southwestern Vermont |
| Bethlehem, Bayt Lahm, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Bethlehem-Judah | A small town near Jerusalem on the West Bank of the Jordan River |
| Bethlehem | A town in eastern Pennsylvania on the Lehigh River to the northwest of Philadelphia |
| Biloxi | An old town in southern Mississippi on the Gulf of Mexico |
| Blackpool | A resort town in Lancashire in northwestern England on the Irish Sea |
| Blacksburg | A university town in southwestern Virginia (west of Roanoke) in the Allegheny Mountains |
| Bloomington | A university town in south central Indiana |
| Boulder | A town in north central Colorado |
| Bowling Green | A town in southern Kentucky |
| Bozeman | A town in southwestern Montana |
| Brattleboro | A town in southeastern Vermont on the Connecticut River |
| Brunswick | A university town in southwestern Maine |
| Brunswick | A town in southeast Georgia near the Atlantic coast |
| Bryan | A town of east central Texas |
| Butte | A town in southwestern Montana |
| Cairo | A town at the southern tip of Illinois at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers |
| Calais | A town in northern France on the Strait of Dover that serves as a ferry port to England |
| Canterbury | A town in Kent in southeastern England |
| Cape Girardeau | A town in southeast Missouri |
| Carbondale | A town in southern Illinois |
| Carlsbad | A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border |
| Chablis | A town in north central France noted for white Burgundy wines |
| Chalcedon, Kadikoy | A former town on the Bosporus (now part of Istanbul) |
| Champaign | A university town in east central Illinois adjoining Urbana |
| Chapel Hill | A town in central North Carolina |
| Chartres | A town in northern France that is noted for its Gothic Cathedral |
| Cherbourg | A port town in northwestern France on the English Channel |
| Churchill | A Canadian town in northern Manitoba on Hudson Bay |
| Clinton | A town in east central Iowa |
| Coeur d'Alene | A town in the northern panhandle of Idaho |
| Columbia | A university town in central Missouri |
| Columbia | A town in west central Tennessee |
| Columbus | A town in eastern Mississippi near the border with Alabama |
| Concord | town in eastern Massachusetts near Boston where the first battle of the American Revolution was fought |
| Cooperstown | A small town in east central New York |
| Council Bluffs | A town in southwest Iowa on the Missouri River across from Omaha |
| Cuzco, Cusco | A town in the Andes in southern Peru |
| Dawson | A town in northwestern Canada in the Yukon on the Yukon River |
| Daytona Beach | A resort town in northeast Florida on the Atlantic coast |
| Decatur | A town in northern Alabama on the Tennessee River |
| Del Rio | A town in southwest Texas on the Rio Grande to the west of San Antonio |
| Dhahran | An oil town in eastern Saudi Arabia on an inlet from the Persian Gulf |
| Djanet | A desert town in southeastern Algeria |
| Dodge City | A town of southwestern Kansas on the Arkansas River |
| Dubuque | A town in eastern Iowa on the Mississippi River |
| Dunkirk, Dunkerque | A seaport in northern France on the North Sea |
| East Saint Louis | A town in southwest Illinois on the Mississippi across from Saint Louis |
| Eau Claire | A town in west central Wisconsin |
| El Aaium | A town in Morocco near the Atlantic coast |
| Elmont | A town on Long Island in New York |
| Enid | A town in north central Oklahoma |
| Entebbe | A town in southern Uganda on Lake Victoria |
| Eureka | A town in northwest California on an arm of the Pacific Ocean |
| Farmington | A town in northwestern New Mexico |
| Farmington | A residential town in central Connecticut |
| Fayetteville | A university town in northwestern Arkansas in the Ozarks |
| Fayetteville | A town in central West Virginia on the New River |
| Fayetteville | A town in south central North Carolina |
| Flagstaff | A town in north central Arizona |
| Florence | A town in northeast South Carolina |
| Fort Myers | A town in southwest Florida |
| Fort Smith | A town in western Arkansas on the Arkansas River at the Oklahoma border |
| Frederick | A town in northern Maryland to the west of Baltimore |
| Fredericksburg | A town in northeastern Virginia on the Rappahannock River |
| Gadsden | An industrial town in north central Alabama |
| Gainesville | A university town in north central Florida |
| Gallup | A town in northwestern New Mexico near the Arizona border |
| Galveston | A town in southeast Texas on Galveston Island |
| Gettysburg | A small town in southern Pennsylvania |
| Gloucester | A town in northeastern Massachusetts on Cape Ann to the northeast of Boston |
| Goldsboro | A town that is a major tobacco center in eastern North Carolina |
| Grand Island | A town in south central Nebraska |
| Great Falls | A town in central Montana on the Missouri river |
| Greenville | A town in northwest South Carolina in the Piedmont |
| Greenville | A town in western Mississippi on the Mississippi River to the north of Vicksburg |
| Hagerstown | A town in northern Maryland |
| Hameln, Hamelin | A town in northern Germany (near Hanover) that is famous as the setting for the legend of the Pied Piper |
| Hannibal | A town in northeast Missouri on the Mississippi River |
| Harpers Ferry, Harper's Ferry | A small town in northeastern West Virginia that was the site of a raid in 1859 by the abolitionist John Brown and his followers / followers who captured an arsenal that was located there |
| Hastings | A town in East Sussex just to the south of the place where the battle of Hastings took place |
| Hattiesburg | A town in southeast Mississippi |
| Hays | A town in central Kansas |
| Hershey | An industrial town to the east of Harrisburg |
| Hibbing | A town in northeastern Minnesota in the Mesabi Range |
| Hilo | A town in Hawaii on the island of Hawaii |
| Hippo, Hippo Regius | An ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria |
| Hohenlinden | A town in Bavaria (near Munich) |
| Hot Springs | A town in west central Arkansas |
| Houghton | A town in northwest Michigan on the Upper Peninsula |
| Idaho Falls | A town in southeastern Idaho on the Snake River |
| Interlaken | A popular resort town in the Alps in west central Switzerland |
| Ithaca | A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga |
| Jackson | A town in western Tennessee |
| Jackson | A town in south central Michigan |
| Jackson | A town in western Wyoming |
| Jalalabad | A town in eastern Afghanistan (east of Kabul) |
| Johnson City | A town in northeastern Tennessee |
| Jonesboro | A town in northeast Arkansas |
| Kalamazoo | A town in southwest Michigan |
| Kennewick | A town in southern Washington on the Columbia River |
| Key West | A town on the westernmost of the Florida keys in the Gulf of Mexico |
| Kingston | A town on the Hudson River in New York |
| Kingston | A town in southeast Ontario on Lake Ontario near the head of the Saint Lawrence River |
| Klamath Falls | A town in southern Oregon near the California border |
| Knossos, Cnossos, Cnossus | An ancient town on Crete where Bronze Age culture flourished from about 2000 BC to 1400 BC |
| La Crosse | A town in western Wisconsin on the Mississippi River |
| Lafayette | A town in south central Louisiana |
| Lafayette | A university town in west central Indiana on the Wabash River |
| Lander | A town in central Wyoming |
| Laramie | A university town in southeast Wyoming |
| Las Cruces | A town in southern New Mexico on the Rio Grande |
| Lawrence | A town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River |
| Lawton | A town in southwest Oklahoma |
| Lewiston | A town in northwestern Idaho |
| Lewiston | A town in southwestern Maine to the north of Portland |
| Lexington | town in eastern Massachusetts near Boston where the first battle of the American Revolution was fought |
| Los Alamos | A town in north central New Mexico |
| Lubavitch | A town in Belarus that was the center of the Chabad / Chabad movement for a brief period during the 19th century |
| Lufkin | A town in eastern Texas |
| Mankato | A town in southern Minnesota |
| Mansfield | A town in north central Ohio |
| Mariehamn, Maarianhamina | A town that is the chief port of the Aland islands |
| Marquette | A town on Lake Superior on the Upper Peninsula in northwest Michigan |
| Mason City | A town in north central Iowa |
| Massawa | A port town in Eritrea on an inlet of the Red Sea |
| McAlester | A town in southeastern Oklahoma |
| McAllen | A town in southern Texas on the Rio Grande |
| Medford | A town in southwestern Oregon |
| Medford | town in northeastern Massachusetts |
| Melbourne | A resort town in east central Florida |
| Meridian | A town in eastern Mississippi |
| Midland | A town in west central Texas |
| Missoula | A university town in western Montana |
| Moline | A town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River |
| Monroe | A town in north central Louisiana |
| Monroe | A town of southeast Michigan on Lake Erie |
| Monte Carlo | A town and popular resort in the principality of Monaco |
| Monterey | A town in western California to the south of San Francisco on a peninsula at the southern end of Monterey Bay |
| Morgan City | A town in southeast Louisiana to the south of Baton Rouge |
| Morristown | A town in northern New Jersey where the Continental Army spent two winters |
| Muncie | A town in east central Indiana |
| Muskogee | A town in eastern Oklahoma on the Arkansas River |
| Nag Hammadi | A town in Upper Egypt |
| Nampa | A town in southwestern Idaho |
| Nanaimo | A town in southwestern British Columbia on Vancouver Island to the west of Vancouver |
| Naseby | A village in western Northamptonshire |
| Natchez | A town in southwest Mississippi on the Mississippi River |
| Nazareth | A historic town in northern Israel that is mentioned in the Gospels as the home of Joseph and Mary |
| New Brunswick | A university town in central New Jersey |
| New London | A town in southeastern Connecticut near Long Island Sound |
| Newburgh | A town on the Hudson River in New York |
| Nogales | A town in Arizona on the Mexican border opposite Nogales, Mexico |
| Nogales | A town in northern Mexico on the border of Arizona |
| Nome | A town in western Alaska on the southern coast of the Seward Peninsula |
| North Platte | A town in west central Nebraska on the Platte River |
| Ogden | A town in northern Utah settled by Mormons |
| Orono | A university town in east central Maine on the Penobscot River to the north of Bangor |
| Ottumwa | A town in southeast Iowa |
| Owensboro | A town in northwestern Kentucky on the Ohio River |
| Oxford | A university town in northern Mississippi |
| Paducah | A town in western Kentucky on the Ohio River |
| Palm Beach | A resort town in southeast Florida on an island on the Atlantic coast |
| Palo Alto | A university town in California |
| Panama City | A resort and fishing / fishing town on the Gulf of Mexico in northwest Florida |
| Paris | A town in northeastern Texas |
| Pensacola | A town in extreme northwest Florida |
| Petersburg | A town in southeastern Virginia / Virginia (south of Richmond) |
| Pilsen, Plzen | A town in Czech Republic where Pilsner beer originated |
| Pine Bluff | A town in southeast central Arkansas on the Arkansas River |
| Pittsfield | A town in western Massachusetts |
| Plataea | A former town in Boeotia |
| Plymouth | A town in Massachusetts founded by Pilgrims in 1620 |
| Pocatello | A university town in southeastern Idaho |
| Poplar Bluff | A town in southeast Missouri |
| Portsmouth | A port town in southeastern New Hampshire on the Atlantic Ocean |
| Prescott | A town in central Arizona |
| Princeton | A university town in central New Jersey |
| Rapid City | A town in southwestern South Dakota in the eastern part of the Black Hills |
| Redding | A town in north central California on the Sacramento River |
| Reggane | A town in central Algeria |
| Rochester | A town in southeast Minnesota |
| Rock Island | A town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River |
| Rock Springs | A town of southwest Wyoming near the Utah border |
| Roswell | A town in southeast New Mexico |
| Rutland | A town in central Vermont |
| Saginaw | A town in east central Michigan on an arm of Lake Huron |
| Saint Cloud, St. Cloud | A town in central Minnesota on the Mississippi River |
| Saint Joseph, St. Joseph | A town in northwest Missouri on the Missouri River |
| Salina | A town in central Kansas |
| San Angelo | A town in west central Texas |
| San Mateo | A town in California to the south of San Francisco |
| San Pablo | A town in western California to the north of Oakland on an arm of San Francisco Bay |
| Santa Barbara | A town in southwestern California on the Pacific Ocean |
| Santa Cruz | A town in western California on Monterey Bay |
| Santa Maria del Tule | A town in southeastern Mexico near Oaxaca |
| Saqqara, Saqqarah, Sakkara | A town in northern Egypt |
| Sarasota | A town in west central Florida on the Gulf of Mexico |
| Saratoga Springs | A town in eastern New York State famed for its spa and its horse racing |
| Sault Sainte Marie | A town of southern Ontario opposite northern Michigan |
| Sedalia | A town in east central Missouri |
| Selma | A town in central Alabama on the Alabama river |
| Sherman | A town in northeastern Texas near the Oklahoma border |
| Silver City | A town in southwestern New Mexico |
| Sitka | A town in southeastern Alaska that was the capital of Russian America and served as the capital of Alaska from 1867 until 1906 |
| Skagway | A town in southeastern Alaska at the northern end of the Inside Passage |
| Stagira, Stagirus | An ancient town of Greece where Aristotle was born |
| Stratford-on-Avon, Stratford-upon-Avon | A town in central England on the River Avon |
| Sun Valley | A winter sports resort in south central Idaho |
| Sunderland | A port and industrial city in northeastern England |
| Superior | A town in northwest Wisconsin on Lake Superior across from Duluth |
| Taos | An artist colony in northern New Mexico |
| Tara | A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin) |
| Texarkana | A town in southwest Arkansas on the Texas border adjacent to Texarkana, Texas |
| Texarkana | A town in northeast Texas adjacent to Texarkana, Arkansas |
| Thule | A town in northwestern Greenland |
| Timgad | An ancient town founded by the Romans |
| Timimoun | A town in central Algeria in the Atlas Mountains |
| Tivoli, Tibur | A town twenty miles to the east of Rome (Tibur is the ancient name) |
| Traverse City | A town in northern Michigan on an arm of Lake Michigan |
| Tupelo | A town in northeast Mississippi |
| Tuscaloosa | A university town in west central Alabama |
| Tuskegee | A town in eastern Alabama |
| Twin Falls | A town on the Snake River in south central Idaho near the Twin Falls |
| Tyler | A town in northeast Texas |
| Urbana | A university town in east central Illinois adjoining Champaign |
| Valdosta | A town in southern Georgia near the Florida border |
| Valenciennes | A town in northeastern France long noted for its lace industry |
| Vancouver | A town in southwestern Washington on the Columbia River across from Portland, Oregon |
| Viborg | A town of Denmark in north central Jutland |
| Vichy | A town in central France (south of Paris) noted for hot mineral springs |
| Vicksburg | A town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the Mississippi River to the west of Jackson |
| Victoria | A town in southeast Texas to the southeast of San Antonio |
| Vidalia | A town in central Georgia |
| Vienne | A town in south central France where is 1311-1313 the Roman Catholic Church held one of its councils |
| Virginia | A town in northeastern Minnesota in the heart of the Mesabi Range |
| Wagga Wagga | A town on the Murrumbidgee River in New South Wales |
| Wagram | A town in northeastern Austria |
| Walla Walla | A town in southeastern Washington near the Oregon border |
| Waterloo | A town in central Belgium where in 1815 Napoleon met his final defeat |
| Watertown | A town in northern New York |
| Watertown | A town in southeastern Wisconsin |
| Wausau | A town in north central Wisconsin |
| West Palm Beach | A town in southeast Florida on the mainland opposite Palm Beach |
| Williamstown | A town in northwestern Massachusetts |
| Wilmington | A town in southeastern North Carolina on the Cape Fear River |
| Yakima | A town in south central Washington |
| Yellowknife | A town in the Northwest Territories in northern Canada on the Great Slave Lake |
| Yuma | A town in southwestern Arizona on the Colorado River and the California border |
| Parts | city limit, city limits | The limits of the area occupied by a city or town |
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| Narrower | Main Street | Any small town (or the people who inhabit it) |
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| boom town | A town enjoying / enjoying sudden prosperity / prosperity |
| burg | colloquial American term for a town |
| cow town, cowtown | A small town in a cattle-raising area of western North America |
| ghost town | A deserted settlement (especially in western United States) |
| hometown | The town (or city) where you grew up or where you have your principal residence |
| market town | A (usually small) town where a public market is held at stated times |
| Broader | municipality | An urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government |
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| Spanish | ciudad, población, pueblo, villa |
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| Catalan | població, poble, vila |
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| Nouns | township | an administrative division of a county |
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