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town
Part of speech: NounAny collection of houses, making a distinct place with a name, larger than a village but not organized as a city; the citizens or voters of such a place; a closely populated place as contrasted with the country; a unit of local government.
Usage examples "town":- Late at night at the office, where my business is great, being now all alone in town, but I shall go through it with pleasure. - "Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright", Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke.
- Did you have a good time down there in the town? - "Wanderers", Knut Hamsun.
- It isn't as though she could get someone else as she could in town. - "A House Party with the Tucker Twins", Nell Speed.