Word Finder - town

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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.

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This town is really dangerous because these youngsters have Beretta handguns.

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Any more urbanized center than the place of reference.

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I'll be in Yonkers, then I'm driving into town to see the Knicks at the Garden tonight.

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A rural settlement in which a market was held at least once a week.

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The residents (as opposed to gown: the students, faculty, etc.) of a community which is the site of a university.

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Used to refer to a town or similar entity under discussion.

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Call me when you get to town.

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A major city, especially one where the speaker is located.

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A municipal organization, such as a corporation, defined by the laws of the entity of which it is a part.

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An enclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor.

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The whole of the land which constituted the domain.

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A collection of houses enclosed by fences or walls.

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A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard.

I'll be back in town Friday.

I need to go to town for something so I'd better get started.

Alex had asked one of the men go into town and rent a car for them.

This town sure likes its history.

I have to leave town.

Today while she was in town, she'd ask Connie if she knew what it was.

No one was in the kitchen, but a note from Sarah explained that she and Tammy had gone to town shopping again.

No one here knew how to plant crops, but the next town over was made up of farm laborers.

Maybe he was putting the squeeze on all over town.

They were from out of town.

I'm sure shooting ghosts in town must be against some local ordinance.

There was no reason to care when Shipton left town, was there?

Yet it was the only familiar thing to her in the town.

It was the size of a greencar—large enough to power the town.

You're sticking around town, right?

Early Saturday morning, the two had boarded a charter bus with scores of bikers for the 372-mile, eight-hour trip to Cortez, Colorado, where they found a pleasant little town abuzz with the activity of 2,000 riders and hundreds of support personnel.

By the time Dean ped­aled the last of the 60 miles into the small town of Pagosa Springs, he knew he'd had a full day's workout.

I'm going to town.

Lana walked back to the town and to the storefront that was her temporary home.

I'll check all the receivers and make sure the town will have energy before I go.

You're welcome to explore the town, Kelli said as she started away.

So were you expecting someone to strike the town?

In Dean's playing days the high school was still in town, but otherwise, nothing had changed.

When Ethel did the inviting, the function was nearly always out of town.

Ethel lived in the pride of Parkside, a new six-story luxury apartment building southeast of town.

Byrne would come into town, do his business, but that's all.

Looks like he recorded it when he got here, then put another 23 miles on it, running to the office and around town.

Go to a truck stop—out of town where they don't know me.

That's out 309, maybe 20 miles from town.

Dean turned the car away from town, opened the window to let in the fresh May night, and headed south toward route 309 and Whitney's Motel.

If I were planning on dumping Harry and leaving town, I'd work at it longer than that!

Winston was most personable and seemed genuinely interested in the small town and surrounding countryside.

He often does that when he's out of town even though he's always home before they get here.

With his silver pride and joy secured to the bike rack, a spare change of clothes and rain gear in his pannier and some fruit and crackers for a snack, he rolled away from town to the peace and quiet of the countryside.

Dean chose an area well away from town and parked at a road­side rest stop.

You wouldn't believe this little town, Ouray.

I understand from Mrs. Glass he was back in town but has moved out, so you don't have to worry.

Maybe he just mailed the key from there and stayed in a larger town nearby.

It's the only campground near the town.

Things like that happened in a town the size of Parkside.

I am out of town but I will telephone you when I return on Sunday.

You stay in a differ­ent town each night.

Where will you stay and how will you get from one town to the next?

The town of Cortez, located in the southwestern corner of Colorado, was near the only spot in the country where four states converged.

The Denver and Rio Grande Western made daily warm-weather trips up the mountain to the mining town of Silverton, 40 miles away.

I left town first thing the next morning.

I don't know what else it could have been, him being in a strange town and all.

Alamosa was a college town of about 7,000, ringed by a num­ber of motels.

Just lucky and it's a small town.

Jack trotted ahead of them back into the town.