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

For starters, there is a risk over what the party does to win voters back or retain those largely rural areas, where official data shows that these countryside towns accounted for nearly 60% of the country’s poor in 2023. — Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 2 Nov. 2026

The business currently serves 15,000 customers in 40 towns in central Connecticut spanning to the shoreline and also has an office in Old Saybrook. — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 2 Nov. 2026

There was also a mass shooting the same night in another college town called Bloomington about 200 miles away. — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026

Atkins formed deep friendships with two other proto-techno producers, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson, who became locally known as the Belleville Three (named for the small Michigan town where Atkins had moved to). — Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026