as in city
a thickly settled, highly populated area
after driving for miles with nothing but corn and wheat fields to look at, we were relieved to roll into a small town and have a bite to eat at the local diner
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Recent Examples of town
Bieri used the more rural town of Abingdon, a southwest town near the Tennessee border, to explain the cost-of-living differences.
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Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 25 Apr. 2026
Along with the resorts mentioned above, gorgeous rental properties are tucked away all over the state, in one charming town after another.
—Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Apr. 2026
The vessel was seized on Wednesday in waters between the coastal towns of Hafun and Bandarbeyla in the semi-autonomous state of Puntland along the Indian Ocean.
—ABC News, 25 Apr. 2026
During this crucial meeting, Vice President Vance was out of town.
—Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2026
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Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 25 Apr. 2026
Along with the resorts mentioned above, gorgeous rental properties are tucked away all over the state, in one charming town after another.
—Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Apr. 2026
The vessel was seized on Wednesday in waters between the coastal towns of Hafun and Bandarbeyla in the semi-autonomous state of Puntland along the Indian Ocean.
—ABC News, 25 Apr. 2026
During this crucial meeting, Vice President Vance was out of town.
—Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for town
Noun
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To close out a busy Day 2, the Steelers selected a mauling guard with a mullet, who will come to a city where that haircut never went out of style.—
Mike DeFabo,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of former President Islam Karimov, is behind bars in Uzbekistan as the trial opens in a Swiss federal criminal court in the southern city of Bellinzona.—
Jamey Keaten,
Fortune,
27 Apr. 2026
Noun
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From Atlantic beaches to Western mountains to central metropolises, there’s a destination suited to every type of traveler.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
26 Apr. 2026
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Viewed from certain perspectives—the perspective of history, the perspective of the roughly one quarter of the world that was once colonized by Britain—London is a metropolis built on crime.—
Mark O’Connell,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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“Town.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/town. Accessed 29 Apr. 2026.
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