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town
English
Alternative forms
- tahn, tawn (Bermuda),
- toune, towne (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English town, toun, from Old English t?n (“enclosure, garden”), from Proto-Germanic *t?n? (“fence”) (compare West Frisian tún, Dutch tuin (“garden”), German Zaun, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian tun), from Gaulish d?nom (“hill, hillfort”), from Proto-Celtic *d?nom (compare archaic Welsh din (“hill”), Irish dún (“fortress”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dewh?- (“to finish, come full circle”). Doublet of dun. See also -ton and tine (“to enclose”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /ta?n/, [t?a??n]
- Rhymes: -a?n
Noun
town (countable and uncountable, plural towns)
- 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.
- Any more urbanized center than the place of reference.
- (Britain, historical) A rural settlement in which a market was held at least once a week.
- The residents (as opposed to gown: the students, faculty, etc.) of a community which is the site of a university.
- (colloquial) Used to refer to a town or similar entity under discussion.
- (humorous, ironic) A major city, especially one where the speaker is located.
- (law) A municipal organization, such as a corporation, defined by the laws of the entity of which it is a part.
- (obsolete) An enclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor.
- (obsolete) The whole of the land which constituted the domain.
- (obsolete) A collection of houses enclosed by fences or walls.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Palsgrave to this entry?)
- (Britain, Scotland, dialect, obsolete) A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard.
Usage notes
- An urban city is typically larger than a rural town, which in turn is typically larger than a village. In rural areas, a town may be considered urban. In urban areas, a town can be considered suburban; a village in the suburbs. The distinctions are fluid and dependent on subjective perception.
Hypernyms
- settlement
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ??? (taun)
Translations
See also
- urban
- suburban
- rural
Anagrams
- nowt, wo'n't, won't, wont
Middle English
Noun
town
- Alternative form of toun
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jaghir
English
Noun
jaghir (plural jaghirs)
- Alternative spelling of jagir
- 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins 2013, page 82:
- He figured why pay your generals hefty salaries and award them vast jagirs if you were going to end up doing all the work anyway?
- 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins 2013, page 82:
jaghir From the web:
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