Word Finder - towns

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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.

Not many small towns so I'll keep rolling and not tarry here.

The burning of towns and villages, the retreats after battles, the blow dealt at Borodino and the renewed retreat, the burning of Moscow, the capture of marauders, the seizure of transports, and the guerrilla war were all departures from the rules.

His action in abolishing all tolls established on the Rhine since 1250, led to the formation of a league against him by the Rhenish archbishops and the count palatine of the Rhine; but aided by the towns, he soon crushed the rising.

In some of the towns, however, and especially at Iglesias, they are good modern buildings.

The earth in flames, with earthquakes swallowing whole towns and buildings burning.

Ibn Tumart, who had been driven from several other towns for exhibitions of reforming zeal, now took refuge among his own people, the Masmuda, in the Atlas.

He'd hitchhiked between towns and walked cross-country, admiring the Irish landscape as he went and cursing the cold, incessant rain of late autumn.

Mike says along the Mississippi, all the towns are like this.

Addresses were presented to him at Southampton, Birmingham and other towns; he was officially entertained by the lord mayor of London; at each place he pleaded the cause of his unhappy country.

After America's entrance into the war they were frequently charged with disloyalty and in many towns attempts were made to suppress them.

In Africa they were successful in expelling the garrisons placed in some of the coast towns by the Norman kings of Sicily.

Although of early origin, its appearance, like that of other great manufacturing towns of the vicinity, is wholly modern.

It thus serves as an entrepot for much of the commerce between Atlantic and Pacific ports, and between the interior towns of Central and South America and the cities of Europe and the United States.

Since 1731 it has been composed of the two towns of Clermont and Montferrand, now connected by a fine avenue of walnut trees and willows, 2 m.

New, disease resistant trees are bringing back the splendor of what has been called one of the prettiest towns in New England.

Although planned in the shape of a cross, with a square and tower in the middle, the arms of the cross are not straight, the constructor holding the ingenious opinion that, in order to prevent little towns from being taken in at a glance, their streets should be crooked.

It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods, and still sustain themselves in the neighborhood of towns, suspected by hunters only.

Surely you dwell here or in one of these surrounding towns.

We'd go twenty, thirty miles away to do our business, moving to different towns.

Communication between these two towns is maintained by a line of smaller boats, the distance being 517 m.

Eusebius in his Onomasticon uses it as a central point from which the distances of other towns are measured.

It is served by the Atlantic Coast Line, the Seaboard Air line, the Southern, the New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk, the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Norfolk & Western, the Norfolk & Southern and the Virginian railways, by many steamship lines, by ferry to Portsmouth (immediately opposite), Newport News, Old Point Comfort and Hampton, and by electric lines to several neighbouring towns.

Stavanger is the first port of call for northward-bound passenger steamers from Hull and Newcastle, and has regular services from all the Norwegian coast towns, from Hamburg, &c. A railway runs south along the wild and desolate coast of Jaederen, one of the few low and unprotected shores in Norway, the scene of many wrecks.

For the Rhine provinces not incorporated in Prussia, with the special object of regulating episcopal elections; concerned Wurttemberg, Baden, Hesse, Saxony, Nassau, Frankfort, the Hanseatic towns, Oldenburg and Waldeck.

He reformed the administration and extended the powers of the Sicilian parliament, which was composed of the barons, the prelates and the representatives of the towns.

Frederick landed in Calabria, where he seized several towns, encouraged revolt in Naples, negotiated with the Ghibellines of Tuscany and Lombardy, and assisted the house of Colonna against Pope Bonif ace.

Charles's sons Robert and Philip landed in Sicily, but after capturing Catania were defeated by Frederick, Philip being taken prisoner (1299), while several Calabrian towns were captured by the Sicilians.

Mannheim is the chief commercial town on the upper Rhine, and yields in importance to Cologne alone among the lower Rhenish towns.

From it the exact time is conveyed each day at one o'clock by electric signal to the chief towns throughout the country; British and the majority of foreign geographers reckon longitude from its meridian.

In 1257, along with his friend Bonaventura, he was created doctor of theology, and began to give courses of lectures upon this subject in Paris, and also in Rome and other towns in Italy.

Thus he gave to his undeserving son Franceschetto several towns near Rome and married him to the daughter of Lorenzo de' Medici.

In Edinburgh, Glasgow, and elsewhere in Scotland, and in London (through the county council), Newcastle and other English towns, the corporations have laid down greens in public parks and open spaces.

By the end of the 15th century it had become one of the most prosperous towns of Holland, on account of its fisheries and its cloth-trade.

I've also moved towns in North Schleswig and Alsace-Lorraine.

After crossing the Hydra - 6 tes (Ravi) he once more came into contact with hostile tribes, and the work of storming petty towns began again.

With the development of cotton and silk industries the town has increased enormously, and is now second in importance only to Derby among the towns of the county.

The name Larissa was common to many "Pelasgian" towns, and apparently signified a fortified city or burg, such as the citadel of Argos.

They reside in small towns and mud forts scattered along the coast.

Between these two towns there is during the season regular steamboat communication.

In Jefferson county there were in 1900 more than 300 mining and manufacturing establishments, engaged, chiefly, in the production of iron, coal and coke, and a majority of these are in Birmingham and its suburban towns.

In southern Albania there are Greek schools in the towns and a large Greek gymnasium at Iannina.

The ruins of Pandosia, Ephyra, Elatea, Phoenike, Buthrotum, Akrolissos and other towns may be identified.

It was almost entirely rebuilt after a destructive fire in 1834, and ranks among the handsomest provincial towns in Austria.

The number of decuriones varied in different towns, but was usually ioo.

In the large towns there were consistories composed of all the ministers and of delegates from the various parishes.

The northern part of the city was the village of Lansingburg (pop. 1900, 12,595) until 1901, when with parts of the towns of Brunswick and North Greenbush it was annexed to Troy.

The most considerable towns on its banks (south of Botzen) are Trent and Rovereto, in Tirol, and Verona and Legnago, in Italy.

Tramway lines, which date from 1870, are to be found in all important towns.

Had the expenses of all the small towns and rural communities been included, the total would be in excess of $20 gold, or £4, per capita.

The following tables, showing the growth of the largest towns in France, are drawn up on the basis of the fourth classification, which is used throughout this work in the articles on French towns, except where otherwise stated.