Dictionary entry details
• TOWN (noun)
Meaning:
An urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Context example:
they drive through town on their way to work
Hypernyms ("town" is a kind of...):
municipality (an urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government)
Meronyms (parts of "town"):
city limit; city limits (the limits of the area occupied by a city or town)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "town"):
market town (a (usually small) town where a public market is held at stated times)
Main Street (any small town (or the people who inhabit it); generally used to represent parochialism and materialism (after a novel by Sinclair Lewis))
hometown (the town (or city) where you grew up or where you have your principal residence)
ghost town (a deserted settlement (especially in Western United States))
boom town (a town enjoying sudden prosperity)
burg (colloquial American term for a town)
Instance hyponyms:
Vicksburg (a town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the Mississippi River west of Jackson; focus of an important campaign during the American Civil War as the Union fought to control the Mississippi River and so to cut the Confederacy into two halves)
Cape Girardeau (a town in southeast Missouri)
Columbia (a university town in central Missouri)
Hannibal (a town in northeast Missouri on the Mississippi River; boyhood home of Mark Twain)
Poplar Bluff (a town in southeast Missouri)
Saint Joseph; St. Joseph (a town in northwest Missouri on the Missouri River; in the 19th century it became the eastern terminus of the pony express)
Sedalia (a town in east central Missouri)
Tupelo (a town in northeast Mississippi)
Natchez (a town in southwest Mississippi on the Mississippi River)
Meridian (a town in eastern Mississippi)
Hattiesburg (a town in southeast Mississippi)
Greenville (a town in western Mississippi on the Mississippi River north of Vicksburg)
Columbus (a town in eastern Mississippi near the border with Alabama)
Biloxi (a old town in southern Mississippi on the Gulf of Mexico)
Virginia (a town in northeastern Minnesota in the heart of the Mesabi Range)
Saint Cloud; St. Cloud (a town in central Minnesota on the Mississippi River; granite quarries)
Bozeman (a town in southwestern Montana; gateway to Yellowstone National Park)
Butte (a town in southwestern Montana; center for mining copper)
Great Falls (a town in central Montana on the Missouri river; a center of extensive hydroelectric power)
Taos (an artist colony in northern New Mexico)
Silver City (a town in southwestern New Mexico)
Roswell (a town in southeast New Mexico)
Los Alamos (a town in north central New Mexico; in 1942 it was chosen as a nuclear research site where the first atomic bombs were produced)
Las Cruces (a town in southern New Mexico on the Rio Grande)
Gallup (a town in northwestern New Mexico near the Arizona border)
Farmington (a town in northwestern New Mexico)
Carlsbad (a town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border; potash deposits)
Princeton; New Brunswick (a university town in central New Jersey)
Morristown (a town in northern New Jersey where the Continental Army spent two winters)
Portsmouth (a port town in southeastern New Hampshire on the Atlantic Ocean)
North Platte (a town in west central Nebraska on the Platte River)
Grand Island (a town in south central Nebraska)
Missoula (a university town in western Montana)
Cooperstown (a small town in east central New York; site of the National Baseball Hall of Fame)
Rochester (a town in southeast Minnesota)
Hagerstown (a town of northern Maryland)
Frederick (a town in northern Maryland west of Baltimore)
Aberdeen (a town in northeastern Maryland)
Orono (a university town in east central Maine on the Penobscot River north of Bangor)
Lewiston (a town in southwestern Maine north of Portland)
Brunswick (a university town in southwestern Maine)
Bangor (a town in east central Maine on the Penobscot River)
Morgan City (a town in southeast Louisiana south of Baton Rouge)
Monroe (a town in north central Louisiana)
Lafayette (a town in south central Louisiana; settled by Acadians)
Alexandria (a town in Louisiana on the Red River)
Paducah (a town in western Kentucky on the Ohio River)
Owensboro (a town in northwestern Kentucky on the Ohio River; a tobacco market)
Bowling Green (a town in southern Kentucky)
Salina (a town in central Kansas)
Concord (town in eastern Massachusetts near Boston where the first battle of the American Revolution was fought)
Gloucester (a town in northeastern Massachusetts on Cape Ann northeast of Boston; the harbor has been a fishing center for centuries)
Lexington (town in eastern Massachusetts near Boston where the first battle of the American Revolution was fought)
Mankato (a town in southern Minnesota)
Hibbing (a town in northeastern Minnesota in the Mesabi Range)
Bemidji (a town in northern Minnesota)
Traverse City (a town in northern Michigan on an arm of Lake Michigan)
Saginaw (a town in east central Michigan on an arm of Lake Huron)
Monroe (a town of southeast Michigan on Lake Erie)
Marquette (a town on Lake Superior on the Upper Peninsula in northwest Michigan)
Kalamazoo (a town in southwest Michigan)
Jackson (a town in south central Michigan)
Houghton (a town in northwest Michigan on the Upper Peninsula)
Alpena (a town in northern Michigan on an arm of Lake Huron)
Williamstown (a town in northwestern Massachusetts)
Plymouth (a town in Massachusetts founded by Pilgrims in 1620)
Pittsfield (a town in western Massachusetts)
Medford (town in northeastern Massachusetts; residential suburb of Boston)
Lawrence (a town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of raids by John Brown in 1856)
Rock Springs (a town of southwest Wyoming near the Utah border)
Fredericksburg (a town in northeastern Virginia on the Rappahannock River)
Blacksburg (a university town in southwestern Virginia (west of Roanoke) in the Allegheny Mountains)
Rutland (a town in central Vermont)
Brattleboro (a town in southeastern Vermont on the Connecticut River)
Bennington (a town in southwestern Vermont)
Ogden (a town in northern Utah settled by Mormons)
Victoria (a town in southeast Texas southeast of San Antonio)
Tyler (a town in northeast Texas)
Texarkana (a town in northeast Texas adjacent to Texarkana, Arkansas)
Sherman (a town in northeastern Texas near the Oklahoma border)
San Angelo (a town in west central Texas; formerly a notorious frontier town)
Paris (a town in northeastern Texas)
Midland (a town in west central Texas)
McAllen (a town in southern Texas on the Rio Grande)
Lufkin (a town in eastern Texas)
Petersburg (a town in southeastern Virginia (south of Richmond); scene of heavy fighting during the American Civil War)
Aberdeen (a town in western Washington)
Bellingham (a town in northeastern Washington on a bay near the Canadian border)
Laramie (a university town in southeast Wyoming)
Lander (a town in central Wyoming)
Jackson (a town in western Wyoming)
Wausau (a town in north central Wisconsin)
Watertown (a town in southeastern Wisconsin)
Superior (a town in northwest Wisconsin on Lake Superior across from Duluth)
La Crosse (a town in western Wisconsin on the Mississippi River)
Eau Claire (a town in west central Wisconsin)
Appleton (a town in eastern Wisconsin)
Harper's Ferry; Harpers Ferry (a small town in northeastern West Virginia that was the site of a raid in 1859 by the abolitionist John Brown and his followers who captured an arsenal that was located there)
Fayetteville (a town in central West Virginia on the New River)
Yakima (a town in south central Washington)
Walla Walla (a town in southeastern Washington near the Oregon border)
Vancouver (a town in southwestern Washington on the Columbia River across from Portland, Oregon)
Kennewick (a town in southern Washington on the Columbia River)
Galveston (a town in southeast Texas on Galveston Island)
Del Rio (a town in southwest Texas on the Rio Grande west of San Antonio)
Enid (a town in north central Oklahoma)
Bartlesville (a town in northeastern Oklahoma)
Mansfield (a town in north central Ohio)
Athens (a town in southeast Ohio)
Wilmington (a town in southeastern North Carolina on the Cape Fear River)
Greenville (a city in eastern North Carolina; tobacco market)
Goldsboro (a town that is a major tobacco center in eastern North Carolina)
Fayetteville (a town in south central North Carolina)
Chapel Hill (a town in central North Carolina; site of the University of North Carolina)
Asheville (a town in western North Carolina in the Blue Ridge Mountains west of Charlotte)
Watertown (a town in northern New York)
Saratoga Springs (a town in eastern New York State famed for its spa and its horse racing)
Newburgh (a town on the Hudson River in New York; in 1782 and 1783 it was George Washington's headquarters)
Kingston (a town on the Hudson River in New York)
Elmont (a town on Long Island in New York; site of Belmont Park)
Lawton (a town in southwest Oklahoma)
McAlester (a town in southeastern Oklahoma)
Muskogee (a town in eastern Oklahoma on the Arkansas River)
Bryan (a town of east central Texas)
Johnson City (a town in northeastern Tennessee)
Jackson (a town in western Tennessee)
Columbia (a town in west central Tennessee)
Rapid City (a town in southwestern South Dakota in the eastern part of the Black Hills)
Aberdeen (a town in northeastern South Dakota)
Greenville (a town in northwest South Carolina in the Piedmont)
Florence (a town in northeast South Carolina; transportation center)
Hershey (an industrial town east of Harrisburg)
Gettysburg (a small town in southern Pennsylvania; site of a national cemetery)
Bethlehem (a town in eastern Pennsylvania on the Lehigh River northwest of Philadelphia; an important center for steel production)
Altoona (a town in central Pennsylvania)
Medford (a town in southwestern Oregon; a summer resort)
Klamath Falls (a town in southern Oregon near the California border)
Bend (a town in central Oregon at the eastern foot of the Cascade Range)
Ithaca (a college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga)
Decatur (a town in northern Alabama on the Tennessee River)
Avignon (a town in southeastern France on the Rhone River; the seat of the papacy from 1309 to 1378 and the residence of antipopes during the Great Schism)
Sakkara; Saqqara; Saqqarah (a town in northern Egypt; site of the oldest Egyptian pyramids)
Nag Hammadi (a town in Upper Egypt)
Bangor (a university town in northwestern Wales on the Menai Strait)
Aberdare (a mining town in southern Wales)
Ayr (a port in southwestern Scotland)
Tara (a village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin); seat of Irish kings until 6th century)
Bangor (a town in southeastern Northern Ireland)
Naseby (a village in western Northamptonshire)
Canterbury (a town in Kent in southeastern England; site of the cathedral where Thomas a Becket was martyred in 1170; seat of the archbishop and primate of the Anglican Church)
Hastings (a town in East Sussex just south of the place where the battle of Hastings took place)
Sunderland (a port and industrial city in northwestern England)
Stratford-on-Avon; Stratford-upon-Avon (a town in central England on the River Avon; birthplace (and burial place) of William Shakespeare)
Blackpool (a resort town in Lancashire in northwestern England on the Irish Sea; famous for its tower)
Bath (a town in southwestern England on the River Avon; famous for its hot springs and Roman remains)
Calais (a town in northern France on the Strait of Dover that serves as a ferry port to England; in 1347 it was captured by the English king Edward III after a long siege and remained in English hands until it was recaptured by the French king Henry II in 1558)
Chablis (a town in north central France noted for white Burgundy wines)
Cherbourg (a port town in northwestern France on the English Channel; site of a naval base)
Entebbe (a town in southern Uganda on Lake Victoria; site of an international airport (where in 1976 Israeli commandos rescued hostages held aboard a plane by Palestinian hijackers))
Chalcedon; Kadikoy (a former town on the Bosporus (now part of Istanbul); site of the Council of Chalcedon)
Antakiya; Antakya; Antioch (a town in southern Turkey; ancient commercial center and capital of Syria; an early center of Christianity)
Abydos (an ancient Greek colony on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles; scene of the legend of Hero and Leander)
Interlaken (a popular resort town in the Alps in west central Switzerland)
Lubavitch (a town in Belarus that was the center of the Chabad movement for a brief period during the 19th century)
Dharhan (a town in eastern Saudi Arabia on an inlet from the Persian Gulf; in June 1996 terrorists bombed an apartment complex in Dharhan killing 19 United States soldiers and wounding more than 300 people)
Cusco; Cuzco (a town in the Andes in southern Peru; formerly the capital of the Inca empire)
El Aaium (a town in Morocco near the Atlantic coast)
Monte Carlo (a town and popular resort in the principality of Monaco; famous for its gambling casino)
Thule (a town in northwestern Greenland; during World War II a United States naval base was built there)
Vienne (a town in south central France where is 1311-1313 the Roman Catholic Church held one of its councils)
Vichy (a town in central France (south of Paris) noted for hot mineral springs; was capital of the unoccupied part of France during World War II)
Valenciennes (a town in northeastern France long noted for its lace industry)
Dunkerque; Dunkirk (a seaport in northern France on the North Sea; scene of the evacuation of British forces in 1940 during World War II)
Waterloo (a town in central Belgium where in 1815 Napoleon met his final defeat)
Aalost; Alost (a town in central Belgium)
Maarianhamina; Mariehamn (a town that is the chief port of the Aland islands)
Massawa (a port town in Eritrea on an inlet of the Red Sea)
Hohenlinden (a town in Bavaria (near Munich))
Hamelin; Hameln (a town in northern Germany (near Hanover) that is famous as the setting for the legend of the Pied Piper)
Viborg (a town of Denmark in north central Jutland)
Austerlitz (a town in Czech Republic; site of the battle of Austerlitz in 1805)
Pilsen; Plzen (a town in Czech Republic where Pilsner beer originated)
Santa Maria del Tule (a town in southeastern Mexico near Oaxaca; site of Ahuehuete, a giant Montezuma cypress)
Nogales (a town in northern Mexico on the border of Arizona)
Timimoun (a town in central Algeria in the Atlas Mountains)
Timgad (an ancient town founded by the Romans; noted for extensive and well-preserved ruins)
Reggane (a town in central Algeria)
Hippo; Hippo Regius (an ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria)
Djanet (a desert town in southeastern Algeria)
Batna (a town in north central Algeria)
Cnossos; Cnossus; Knossos (an ancient town on Crete where Bronze Age culture flourished from about 2000 BC to 1400 BC)
Actium (an ancient town on a promontory in western Greece)
Plataea (a former town in Boeotia; site of a battle between the Greeks and Persians in 479 BC)
Wagram (a town in northeastern Austria)
Wagga Wagga (a town on the Murrumbidgee River in New South Wales; agricultural trading center)
Dawson (a town in northwestern Canada in the Yukon on the Yukon River; a boom town around 1900 when gold was discovered in the Klondike)
Sault Sainte Marie (a town of southern Ontario opposite northern Michigan)
Kingston (a town in southeast Ontario on Lake Ontario near the head of the Saint Lawrence River)
Yellowknife (a town in the Northwest Territories in northern Canada on the Great Slave Lake)
Churchill (a Canadian town in northern Manitoba on Hudson Bay; important port for shipping grain)
Nanaimo (a town in southwestern British Columbia on Vancouver Island west of Vancouver)
Acragas; Agrigento; Girgenti (a town in Italy in southwestern Sicily near the coast; the site of six Greek temples)
Tibur; Tivoli (a town twenty miles east of Rome (Tibur is the ancient name); a summer resort during the Roman empire; noted for its waterfalls)
Anzio (a town of central Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea; the Allies established a beachhead at Anzio in World War II)
Bayt Lahm; Bethlehem; Bethlehem Ephrathah; Bethlehem-Judah (a small town near Jerusalem on the west bank of the Jordan River; early home of David and regarded as the place where Jesus was born)
Nazareth (a historic town in northern Israel that is mentioned in the Gospels as the home of Joseph and Mary)
Accho; Acre; Akka; Akko (a town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean)
Stagira; Stagirus (an ancient town of Greece where Aristotle was born)
Jalalabad (a town in eastern Afghanistan (east of Kabul))
Hays (a town in central Kansas)
Sun Valley (a winter sports resort in south central Idaho)
Pocatello (a university town in southeastern Idaho)
Nampa (a town in southwestern Idaho)
Lewiston (a town in northwestern Idaho)
Idaho Falls (a town in southeastern Idaho on the Snake River)
Coeur d'Alene (a town in the northern panhandle of Idaho; popular resort area)
Hilo (a town in Hawaii on the island of Hawaii)
Valdosta (a town in southern Georgia near the Florida border)
Oxford (a university town in northern Mississippi; home of William Faulkner)
Brunswick (a town in southeast Georgia near the Atlantic coast; a port of entry)
Athens (a university town in northeast Georgia)
Albany (a town in southwest Georgia; processing center for peanuts and pecans)
West Palm Beach (a town in southeast Florida on the mainland opposite Palm Beach; founded as a commercial center for Palm Beach)
Sarasota (a town in west central Florida on the Gulf of Mexico)
Pensacola (a town in extreme northwest Florida)
Twin Falls (a town on the Snake River in south central Idaho near the Twin Falls)
Cairo (a town at the southern tip of Illinois at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers)
Carbondale (a town in southern Illinois)
Abilene (a town in central Kansas west of Topeka; home of Dwight D. Eisenhower)
Dodge City (a town of southwestern Kansas on the Arkansas River; formerly a rowdy cow town)
Ottumwa (a town in southeast Iowa)
Mason City (a town in north central Iowa)
Dubuque (a town in eastern Iowa on the Mississippi River)
Clinton (a town in east central Iowa)
Council Bluffs (a town in southwest Iowa on the Missouri River across from Omaha)
Muncie (a town in east central Indiana)
Lafayette (a university town in west central Indiana on the Wabash River)
Bloomington (a university town in south central Indiana)
Urbana (a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Champaign)
Rock Island (a town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River; site of a Union prison during the American Civil War)
Moline (a town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River)
East Saint Louis (a town in southwest Illinois on the Mississippi across from Saint Louis)
Champaign (a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Urbana)
Panama City (a resort and fishing town on the Gulf of Mexico in northwest Florida)
Palm Beach (a resort town in southeast Florida on an island on the Atlantic coast)
Pine Bluff (a town in southeast central Arkansas on the Arkansas River)
Jonesboro (a town in northeast Arkansas)
Hot Springs (a town in west central Arkansas; a health resort noted for thermal springs)
Fort Smith (a town in western Arkansas on the Arkansas River at the Oklahoma border)
Fayetteville (a university town in northwestern Arkansas in the Ozarks)
Yuma (a town in southwestern Arizona on the Colorado River and the California border)
Prescott (a town in central Arizona)
Nogales (a town in Arizona on the Mexican border opposite Nogales, Mexico)
Flagstaff (a town in north central Arizona; site of an important observatory)
Skagway (a town in southeastern Alaska at the northern end of the Inside Passage; a gateway to the Klondike during the Alaskan gold rush)
Sitka (a town in southeastern Alaska that was the capital of Russian America and served as the capital of Alaska from 1867 until 1906)
Nome (a town in western Alaska on the southern coast of the Seward Peninsula; an important center of an Alaskan gold rush at the beginning of the 20th century)
Tuskegee (a town in eastern Alabama)
Tuscaloosa (a university town in west central Alabama)
Selma (a town in central Alabama on the Alabama river; in 1965 it was the center of a drive to register Black voters)
Texarkana (a town in southwest Arkansas on the Texas border adjacent to Texarkana, Texas)
Barstow (a town in southeastern California)
Eureka (a town in northwest California on an arm of the Pacific Ocean)
Melbourne (a resort town in east central Florida)
Key West (a town on the westernmost of the Florida keys in the Gulf of Mexico)
Gainesville (a university town in north central Florida)
Fort Myers (a town in southwest Florida)
Daytona Beach (a resort town in northeast Florida on the Atlantic coast; hard white beaches have been used for automobile speed trials)
New London (a town in southeastern Connecticut near Long Island Sound; an important whaling center in the 19th century)
Farmington (a residential town in central Connecticut)
Boulder (a town in north central Colorado; Rocky Mountains resort center and university town)
Santa Cruz (a town in western California on Monterey Bay; a tourist center)
Santa Barbara (a town in southwestern California on the Pacific Ocean)
San Pablo (a town in western California north of Oakland on an arm of San Francisco Bay)
San Mateo (a town in California south of San Francisco)
Redding (a town in north central California on the Sacramento River)
Palo Alto (a university town in California)
Monterey (a town in western California south of San Francisco on a peninsula at the southern end of Monterey Bay)
Gadsden (an industrial town in north central Alabama)
Meaning:
An administrative division of a county
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
township; town
Context example:
the town is responsible for snow removal
Hypernyms ("town" is a kind of...):
administrative district; administrative division; territorial division (a district defined for administrative purposes)
Meaning:
The people living in a municipality smaller than a city
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
townsfolk; townspeople; town
Context example:
the whole town cheered the team
Hypernyms ("town" is a kind of...):
municipality (people living in a town or city having local self-government)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "town"):
borough (an English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament)
