"town" | Definition and Related Words

town

Noun

An urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city (synset 108683242)
"they drive through town on their way to work"

is a type of: municipality - an urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government
subtypes:
- burg - colloquial American term for a town
- boom town - a town enjoying sudden prosperity
- cow town, cowtown - a small town in a cattle-raising area of western North America
- ghost town - a deserted settlement (especially in western United States)
- hometown - the town (or city) where you grew up or where you have your principal residence
- main street - any small town (or the people who inhabit it); generally used to represent parochialism and materialism (after a novel by Sinclair Lewis)
- market town - a (usually small) town where a public market is held at stated times
specific instances:
- jalalabad - a town in eastern Afghanistan (east of Kabul)
- batna - a town in north central Algeria
- djanet - a desert town in southeastern Algeria
- hippo, hippo regius - an ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa adjoining present-day Annaba in northeastern Algeria
- reggane - a town in central Algeria
- timgad - an ancient town founded by the Romans; noted for extensive and well-preserved ruins
- timimoun - a town in central Algeria in the Atlas Mountains
- nogales - a town in northern Mexico on the border of Arizona
- santa maria del tule - a town in southeastern Mexico near Oaxaca; site of Ahuehuete, a giant Montezuma cypress
- pilsen, plzen - a town in Czech Republic where Pilsner beer originated
- austerlitz - a town in Czech Republic; site of the battle of Austerlitz in 1805
- viborg - a town of Denmark in north central Jutland
- hamelin, hameln - a town in northern Germany (near Hanover) that is famous as the setting for the legend of the Pied Piper
- hohenlinden - a town in Bavaria (near Munich)
- massawa - a port town in Eritrea on an inlet of the Red Sea
- maarianhamina, mariehamn - a town that is the chief port of the Aland islands
- 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
- stagira, stagirus - an ancient town of Greece where Aristotle was born
- accho, acre, akka, akko - a town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean
- nazareth - a historic town in northern Israel that is mentioned in the Gospels as the home of Joseph and Mary
- 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
- anzio - a town of central Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea; the Allies established a beachhead at Anzio in World War II
- tibur, tivoli - a town twenty miles to the east of Rome (Tibur is the ancient name); a summer resort during the Roman empire; noted for its waterfalls
- acragas, agrigento - a town in Italy in southwestern Sicily near the coast; the site of six Greek temples
- nanaimo - a town in southwestern British Columbia on Vancouver Island to the west of Vancouver
- churchill - a Canadian town in northern Manitoba on Hudson Bay; important port for shipping grain
- yellowknife - a town in the Northwest Territories in northern Canada on the Great Slave Lake
- kingston - a town in southeast Ontario on Lake Ontario near the head of the Saint Lawrence River
- sault sainte marie - a town of southern Ontario opposite northern Michigan
- 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
- wagga wagga - a town on the Murrumbidgee River in New South Wales; agricultural trading center
- wagram - a town in northeastern Austria
- aalst - a town in central Belgium
- waterloo - a town in central Belgium where in 1815 Napoleon met his final defeat
- bath - a town in southwestern England on the River Avon; famous for its hot springs and Roman remains
- blackpool - a resort town in Lancashire in northwestern England on the Irish Sea; famous for its tower
- stratford-on-avon, stratford-upon-avon - a town in central England on the River Avon; birthplace (and burial place) of William Shakespeare
- sunderland - a port and industrial city in northeastern England
- hastings - a town in East Sussex just to the south of the place where the battle of Hastings took place
- 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
- naseby - a village in western Northamptonshire
- bangor - a town in southeastern Northern Ireland
- tara - a village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin); seat of Irish kings until 6th century
- ayr - a port in southwestern Scotland
- aberdare - a mining town in southern Wales
- bangor - a university town in northwestern Wales on the Menai Strait
- nag hammadi - a town in Upper Egypt
- sakkara, saqqara, saqqarah - a town in northern Egypt; site of the oldest Egyptian pyramids
- 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
- 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
- chartres - a town in northern France that is noted for its Gothic Cathedral
- cherbourg - a port town in northwestern France on the English Channel; site of a naval base
- dunkerque, dunkirk - a seaport in northern France on the North Sea; scene of the evacuation of British forces in 1940 during World War II
- valenciennes - a town in northeastern France long noted for its lace industry
- 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
- vienne - a town in south central France where is 1311-1313 the Roman Catholic Church held one of its councils
- thule - a town in northwestern Greenland; during World War II a United States naval base was built there
- monte carlo - a town and popular resort in the principality of Monaco; famous for its gambling casino
- el aaium - a town in Morocco near the Atlantic coast
- cusco, cuzco - a town in the Andes in southern Peru; formerly the capital of the Inca empire
- dhahran - an oil town in eastern Saudi Arabia on an inlet from the Persian Gulf; in June 1996 terrorists bombed an apartment complex in Dhahran killing 19 United States soldiers and wounding more than 300 people
- lubavitch - a town in Belarus that was the center of the Chabad movement for a brief period during the 19th century
- interlaken - a popular resort town in the Alps in west central Switzerland
- abydos - an ancient Greek colony on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles; scene of the legend of Hero and Leander
- antakiya, antakya, antioch - a town in southern Turkey; ancient commercial center and capital of Syria; an early center of Christianity
- chalcedon, kadikoy - a former town on the Bosporus (now part of Istanbul); site of the Council of Chalcedon
- 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)
- decatur - a town in northern Alabama on the Tennessee River
- gadsden - an industrial town in north 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
- tuscaloosa - a university town in west central Alabama
- tuskegee - a town in eastern Alabama
- 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
- sitka - a town in southeastern Alaska that was the capital of Russian America and served as the capital of Alaska from 1867 until 1906
- skagway - a town in southeastern Alaska at the northern end of the Inside Passage; a gateway to the Klondike during the Alaskan gold rush
- flagstaff - a town in north central Arizona; site of an important observatory
- nogales - a town in Arizona on the Mexican border opposite Nogales, Mexico
- prescott - a town in central Arizona
- yuma - a town in southwestern Arizona on the Colorado River and the California border
- fayetteville - a university town in northwestern Arkansas in the Ozarks
- fort smith - a town in western Arkansas on the Arkansas River at the Oklahoma border
- hot springs - a town in west central Arkansas; a health resort noted for thermal springs
- jonesboro - a town in northeast Arkansas
- pine bluff - a town in southeast central Arkansas on the Arkansas River
- 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
- monterey - a town in western California to the south of San Francisco on a peninsula at the southern end of Monterey Bay
- palo alto - a university town in California
- redding - a town in north central California on the Sacramento River
- san mateo - a town in California to the south of San Francisco
- san pablo - a town in western California to the north of Oakland on an arm of San Francisco Bay
- santa barbara - a town in southwestern California on the Pacific Ocean
- santa cruz - a town in western California on Monterey Bay; a tourist center
- boulder - a town in north central Colorado; Rocky Mountains resort center and university town
- farmington - a residential town in central Connecticut
- new london - a town in southeastern Connecticut near Long Island Sound; an important whaling center in the 19th century
- daytona beach - a resort town in northeast Florida on the Atlantic coast; hard white beaches have been used for automobile speed trials
- fort myers - a town in southwest Florida
- gainesville - a university town in north central Florida
- key west - a town on the westernmost of the Florida keys in the Gulf of Mexico
- melbourne - a resort town in east central Florida
- palm beach - a resort town in southeast Florida on an island on the Atlantic coast
- panama city - a resort and fishing town on the Gulf of Mexico in northwest Florida
- pensacola - a town in extreme northwest Florida
- sarasota - a town in west central Florida on the Gulf of Mexico
- west palm beach - a town in southeast Florida on the mainland opposite Palm Beach; founded as a commercial center for Palm Beach
- albany - a town in southwest Georgia; processing center for peanuts and pecans
- athens - a university town in northeast Georgia
- brunswick - a town in southeast Georgia near the Atlantic coast; a port of entry
- oxford - a university town in northern Mississippi; home of William Faulkner
- valdosta - a town in southern Georgia near the Florida border
- vidalia - a town in central Georgia; the origin of Vidalia onions
- hilo - a town in Hawaii on the island of Hawaii
- coeur d'alene - a town in the northern panhandle of Idaho; popular resort area
- idaho falls - a town in southeastern Idaho on the Snake River
- lewiston - a town in northwestern Idaho
- nampa - a town in southwestern Idaho
- pocatello - a university town in southeastern Idaho
- sun valley - a winter sports resort in south central Idaho
- 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
- champaign - a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Urbana
- east saint louis - a town in southwest Illinois on the Mississippi across from Saint Louis
- moline - a town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River
- rock island - a town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River; site of a Union prison during the American Civil War
- urbana - a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Champaign
- bloomington - a university town in south central Indiana
- lafayette - a university town in west central Indiana on the Wabash River
- muncie - a town in east central Indiana
- council bluffs - a town in southwest Iowa on the Missouri River across from Omaha
- clinton - a town in east central Iowa
- dubuque - a town in eastern Iowa on the Mississippi River
- mason city - a town in north central Iowa
- ottumwa - a town in southeast Iowa
- dodge city - a town of southwestern Kansas on the Arkansas River; formerly a rowdy cow town
- abilene - a town in central Kansas to the west of Topeka; home of Dwight D. Eisenhower
- hays - a town in central Kansas
- lawrence - a town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of raids by John Brown in 1856
- salina - a town in central Kansas
- bowling green - a town in southern Kentucky
- owensboro - a town in northwestern Kentucky on the Ohio River; a tobacco market
- paducah - a town in western Kentucky on the Ohio River
- alexandria - a town in Louisiana on the Red River
- lafayette - a town in south central Louisiana; settled by Acadians
- monroe - a town in north central Louisiana
- morgan city - a town in southeast Louisiana to the south of Baton Rouge
- bangor - a town in east central Maine on the Penobscot River
- brunswick - a university town in southwestern Maine
- lewiston - a town in southwestern Maine to the north of Portland
- orono - a university town in east central Maine on the Penobscot River to the north of Bangor
- aberdeen - a town in northeastern Maryland
- frederick - a town in northern Maryland to the west of Baltimore
- hagerstown - a town in northern Maryland
- 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 to the 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
- medford - town in northeastern Massachusetts; residential suburb of Boston
- pittsfield - a town in western Massachusetts
- plymouth - a town in Massachusetts founded by Pilgrims in 1620
- williamstown - a town in northwestern Massachusetts
- alpena - a town in northern Michigan on an arm of Lake Huron
- houghton - a town in northwest Michigan on the Upper Peninsula
- jackson - a town in south central Michigan
- kalamazoo - a town in southwest Michigan
- marquette - a town on Lake Superior on the Upper Peninsula in northwest Michigan
- monroe - a town of southeast Michigan on Lake Erie
- saginaw - a town in east central Michigan on an arm of Lake Huron
- traverse city - a town in northern Michigan on an arm of Lake Michigan
- bemidji - a town in northern Minnesota
- hibbing - a town in northeastern Minnesota in the Mesabi Range
- mankato - a town in southern Minnesota
- rochester - a town in southeast Minnesota
- saint cloud, st. cloud - a town in central Minnesota on the Mississippi River; granite quarries
- virginia - a town in northeastern Minnesota in the heart of the Mesabi Range
- biloxi - an old town in southern Mississippi on the Gulf of Mexico
- columbus - a town in eastern Mississippi near the border with Alabama
- greenville - a town in western Mississippi on the Mississippi River to the north of Vicksburg
- hattiesburg - a town in southeast Mississippi
- meridian - a town in eastern Mississippi
- natchez - a town in southwest Mississippi on the Mississippi River
- tupelo - a town in northeast Mississippi
- vicksburg - a town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the Mississippi River to the 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
- 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
- missoula - a university town in western Montana
- grand island - a town in south central Nebraska
- north platte - a town in west central Nebraska on the Platte River
- portsmouth - a port town in southeastern New Hampshire on the Atlantic Ocean
- morristown - a town in northern New Jersey where the Continental Army spent two winters
- new brunswick - a university town in central New Jersey
- princeton - a university town in central New Jersey
- carlsbad - a town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border; potash deposits
- farmington - a town in northwestern New Mexico
- gallup - a town in northwestern New Mexico near the Arizona border
- las cruces - a town in southern New Mexico on the Rio Grande
- 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
- roswell - a town in southeast New Mexico
- silver city - a town in southwestern New Mexico
- taos - an artist colony in northern New Mexico
- cooperstown - a small town in east central New York; site of the National Baseball Hall of Fame
- ithaca - a college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga
- elmont - a town on Long Island in New York; site of Belmont Park
- kingston - a town on the Hudson River in New York
- newburgh - a town on the Hudson River in New York; in 1782 and 1783 it was George Washington's headquarters
- saratoga springs - a town in eastern New York State famed for its spa and its horse racing
- watertown - a town in northern New York
- asheville - a town in western North Carolina in the Blue Ridge Mountains to the west of Charlotte
- chapel hill - a town in central North Carolina; site of the University of North Carolina
- fayetteville - a town in south central North Carolina
- goldsboro - a town that is a major tobacco center in eastern North Carolina
- wilmington - a town in southeastern North Carolina on the Cape Fear River
- athens - a town in southeast Ohio
- mansfield - a town in north central Ohio
- bartlesville - a town in northeastern Oklahoma
- enid - a town in north central Oklahoma
- lawton - a town in southwest Oklahoma
- mcalester - a town in southeastern Oklahoma
- muskogee - a town in eastern Oklahoma on the Arkansas River
- bend - a town in central Oregon at the eastern foot of the Cascade Range
- klamath falls - a town in southern Oregon near the California border
- medford - a town in southwestern Oregon; a summer resort
- altoona - a town in central Pennsylvania
- bethlehem - a town in eastern Pennsylvania on the Lehigh River to the northwest of Philadelphia; an important center for steel production
- gettysburg - a small town in southern Pennsylvania; site of a national cemetery
- hershey - an industrial town to the east of Harrisburg
- florence - a town in northeast South Carolina; transportation center
- greenville - a town in northwest South Carolina in the Piedmont
- aberdeen - a town in northeastern South Dakota
- rapid city - a town in southwestern South Dakota in the eastern part of the Black Hills
- columbia - a town in west central Tennessee
- jackson - a town in western Tennessee
- johnson city - a town in northeastern Tennessee
- bryan - a town of east central Texas
- del rio - a town in southwest Texas on the Rio Grande to the west of San Antonio
- galveston - a town in southeast Texas on Galveston Island
- lufkin - a town in eastern Texas
- mcallen - a town in southern Texas on the Rio Grande
- midland - a town in west central Texas
- paris - a town in northeastern Texas
- san angelo - a town in west central Texas; formerly a notorious frontier town
- sherman - a town in northeastern Texas near the Oklahoma border
- texarkana - a town in northeast Texas adjacent to Texarkana, Arkansas
- tyler - a town in northeast Texas
- victoria - a town in southeast Texas to the southeast of San Antonio
- ogden - a town in northern Utah settled by Mormons
- bennington - a town in southwestern Vermont
- brattleboro - a town in southeastern Vermont on the Connecticut River
- rutland - a town in central Vermont
- blacksburg - a university town in southwestern Virginia (west of Roanoke) in the Allegheny Mountains
- fredericksburg - a town in northeastern Virginia on the Rappahannock River
- 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 northwestern Washington on a bay near the Canadian border
- kennewick - a town in southern Washington on the Columbia River
- vancouver - a town in southwestern Washington on the Columbia River across from Portland, Oregon
- walla walla - a town in southeastern Washington near the Oregon border
- yakima - a town in south central Washington
- fayetteville - a town in central West Virginia on the New River
- 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
- appleton - a town in eastern Wisconsin
- eau claire - a town in west central Wisconsin
- la crosse - a town in western Wisconsin on the Mississippi River
- superior - a town in northwest Wisconsin on Lake Superior across from Duluth
- watertown - a town in southeastern Wisconsin
- wausau - a town in north central Wisconsin
- jackson - a town in western Wyoming
- lander - a town in central Wyoming
- laramie - a university town in southeast Wyoming
- rock springs - a town of southwest Wyoming near the Utah border
has: city limit, city limits - the limits of the area occupied by a city or town
The people living in a municipality smaller than a city (synset 108243435)
"the whole town cheered the team"

is a type of: municipality - people living in a town or city having local self-government

subtypes: borough - an English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament

same as: townsfolk, townspeople
An administrative division of a county (synset 108689937)
"the town is responsible for snow removal"

is a type of: administrative district, administrative division, territorial division - a district defined for administrative purposes

same as: township
United States architect who was noted for his design and construction of truss bridges (1784-1844) (synset 111366705)
is a type of: architect, designer - someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)

same as: ithiel town

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