Town

Definition of Town

n.1.Formerly: (a) An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. [Obs.] (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. [Obs.] (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls.
2.Any number or collection of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop.
3.Any collection of houses larger than a village, and not incorporated as a city; also, loosely, any large, closely populated place, whether incorporated or not, in distinction from the country, or from rural communities.
God made the country, and man made the town.
- Cowper.
4.The body of inhabitants resident in a town; as, the town voted to send two representatives to the legislature; the town voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways.
5.A township; the whole territory within certain limits, less than those of a country.
6.The court end of London; - commonly with the.
7.The metropolis or its inhabitants; as, in winter the gentleman lives in town; in summer, in the country.
Always hankering after the diversions of the town.
- Addison.
Stunned with his giddy larum half the town.
- Pope.
8.A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard.
Town clerk
an office who keeps the records of a town, and enters its official proceedings. See Clerk.
Town cress
(Bot.) the garden cress, or peppergrass.
Town house
a - A house in town, in distinction from a house in the country.
- Dr. Prior.
b - See Townhouse.
Town meeting
a legal meeting of the inhabitants of a town entitled to vote, for the transaction of public bisiness.
Town talk
the common talk of a place; the subject or topic of common conversation.

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