Definition of town

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Town (adv. & prep.) Any number or collection of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop..

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Soc :: Soc (n.) An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township which the mill stands.
Upland :: Upland (n.) The country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns..
Shire :: Shire (n.) A division of a State, embracing several contiguous townships; a county..
Market :: Market (n.) An opportunity for selling anything; demand, as shown by price offered or obtainable; a town, region, or country, where the demand exists; as, to find a market for one's wares; there is no market for woolen cloths in that region; India is a market for English goods..
Wigan :: Wigan (n.) A kind of canvaslike cotton fabric, used to stiffen and protect the lower part of trousers and of the skirts of women's dresses, etc.; -- so called from Wigan, the name of a town in Lancashire, England..
Inhabitant :: Inhabitant (n.) One who dwells or resides permanently in a place, as distinguished from a transient lodger or visitor; as, an inhabitant of a house, a town, a city, county, or state..
Seaboard :: Seaboard (a.) Bordering upon, or being near, the sea; seaside; seacoast; as, a seaboard town..
Defend :: Defend (v. t.) To repel danger or harm from; to protect; to secure against; attack; to maintain against force or argument; to uphold; to guard; as, to defend a town; to defend a cause; to defend character; to defend the absent; -- sometimes followed by from or against; as, to defend one's self from, or against, one's enemies..
Cantonment :: Cantonment (n.) A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters; temporary shelter or place of rest for an army; quarters..
Cit :: Cit (n.) A citizen; an inhabitant of a city; a pert townsman; -- used contemptuously.
Circulatorious :: Circulatorious (a.) Travelling from house to house or from town to town; itinerant.
Kidderminster :: Kidderminster (n.) A kind of ingrain carpeting, named from the English town where formerly most of it was manufactured..
Amphictyonic :: Amphictyonic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Amphictyons or their League or Council; as, an Amphictyonic town or state; the Amphictyonic body..
Townsman :: Townsman (n.) An inhabitant of a town; one of the same town with another.
Hansard :: Hansard (n.) A merchant of one of the Hanse towns. See the Note under 2d Hanse.
This :: This (pron. & a.) As an adjective, this has the same demonstrative force as the pronoun, but is followed by a noun; as, this book; this way to town..
Bawl :: Bawl (v. t.) To proclaim with a loud voice, or by outcry, as a hawker or town-crier does..
Townlet :: Townlet (n.) A small town.
Burgh :: Burgh (n.) A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See Borough..
Municipality :: Municipality (n.) A municipal district; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village..
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