Synonyms of town

town

noun

ˈtau̇n 

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• city
• metropolis
• municipality
• suburb
• burg
• megalopolis
• borough
• megacity
• cosmopolis
• asphalt jungle
• downtown
• conurbation
• urban sprawl
• suburbia
• central city
• garden city
• midtown
• inner city
• core city
• exurb
• edge city

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of town

The doctor was scheduled to see 17 people as the sun set in this North Georgia mountain town of roughly 10,000 residents on the South Carolina border. — Tamar Hallerman, AJC.com, 5 Oct. 2026

Fazio said that his private sector employment had nothing to do with his decision to vote in the state Senate against a high-profile bill that would prohibit Connecticut towns and state agencies from purchasing drones made in China and Russia. — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 4 Oct. 2026

Khanna’s district is one of the richest in the country; in Fremont, which isn’t the wealthiest town in the area, the median annual household income is more than a hundred and eighty thousand dollars. — Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026

The utility this weekend also de-energized lines around a brush fire that broke out Saturday, prompting evacuation orders several miles south of Lahaina town, the site of the 2023 deadly fires. — Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2026