Usually means: Population center, larger than village.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. town: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. town, the town: Merriam-Webster
  3. town, town: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. town: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. town: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Town, town: Vocabulary.com
  7. Town, town, town: Wordnik
  8. town, the town: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Town, -town, town: Wiktionary
  10. town: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. town: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. town: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. town: Dictionary.com
  14. town: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. town: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Town (Faulkner), The Town (Richter novel), The Town (Strindberg), The Town (The Simpsons), The Town (film), The Town, The town, Town (Arizona), Town (California), Town (China), Town (Florida), Town (Maryland), Town (Mississippi), Town (New England), Town (New Jersey), Town (New York), Town (Texas), Town (United States), Town (Utah), Town (Virginia), Town (West Virginia), Town (Wisconsin), Town (disambiguation), Town: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Town: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. town: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. town: Rhymezone
  20. town: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. town: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. town: FreeDictionary.org
  23. town: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Town: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. town: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Town: Legal dictionary
  3. town: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. town: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. town: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. TOWN: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. town: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. town: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. town, town: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Town: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  3. town: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Town (fortified): Dictionary of Military Architecture

(Note: See towning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A settlement; an area with residential districts, shops and amenities, and its own local government; especially one larger than a village and smaller than a city, historically enclosed by a fence or walls, with total populations ranging from several hundred to more than a hundred thousand (as of the early 21st century)
noun:  Any more urbanized centre than the place of reference.
noun:  (UK, historical) A rural settlement in which a market was held at least once a week.
noun:  The residents (as opposed to gown: the students, faculty, etc.) of a community which is the site of a university.
noun:  (colloquial) Used to refer to a town or similar entity under discussion.
noun:  A major city, especially one where the speaker is located.
noun:  (informal) A townhouse.
noun:  (law) A municipal organization, such as a corporation, defined by the laws of the entity of which it is a part.
noun:  (obsolete) An enclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor; by extension, the whole of the land which constituted the domain.
noun:  (UK, Scotland, dialect, obsolete) A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard.
noun:  (England, traditional, also Town, in phrases such as 'in town' or 'to town') London, especially central London.
noun:  agrotown
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A community and ward in Merthyr Tydfil county borough, Wales, in Merthyr Tydfil town centre.
noun:  (England, traditional, in phrases such as 'in Town' or 'to Town', also without capital) London, especially central London.

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