name, noun, slang ·Common ·Middle school level
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"This town is really dangerous because these youngsters have Beretta handguns."
"I'll be in Yonkers, then I'm driving into town to see the Knicks at the Garden tonight."
"Call me when you get to town."
"There's always a business theme, even underlying happy hours. You're never off the clock in this town."
"Detached houses always sell faster than towns or semis."
"This is the town I told you about."
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, historically enclosed by a fence or walls, with total populations ranging from several hundred to more than a hundred thousand (as of the early 21st century)
Common synonyms include: aalst, aberdare, abukir, aguadilla, altamira, amenia.
This is the town I told you about.
Pronounced /tuːn/.
From Middle English toun, from Old English tūn (“enclosure, garden”), from Proto-West Germanic *tūn, from Proto-Germanic *tūną (“fence, enclosure”), of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *dūnom, from Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- (“to finish, come full circle”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tuun (“garden”), West Frisian tún (“enclosure, garden”), Dutch tuin (“garden”), German Low German Tuun (“fence”), German Zaun (“fence”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian tun (“yard”); also archaic Welsh din (“hill”), Irish dún (“fortress”). Doublet of dun. See also -ton and tine (“to enclose”).
English surname, from the noun town.