TOWN

adv & ·prep the court end of london;-- commonly with the.

2. town ·adv & ·prep a farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard.

3. town ·adv & ·prep a township; the whole territory within certain limits, less than those of a country.

4. town ·adv & ·prep the metropolis or its inhabitants; as, in winter the gentleman lives in town; in summer, in the country.

5. 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.

6. town ·adv & ·prep the body of inhabitants resident in a town; as, the town voted to send two representatives to the legislature; the town voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways.

7. town ·adv & ·prep any collection of houses larger than a village, and not incorporated as a city; also, loosely, any large, closely populated place, whether incorporated or not, in distinction from the country, or from rural communities.

8. town ·adv & ·prep formerly: (a) an inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. (b) the whole of the land which constituted the domain. (c) a collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls.