Thesaurus results for TOWNS

towns

noun

plural of town

as in cities

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 towns Much of Mellencamp’s songwriting draws from his upbringing in Seymour, Indiana, telling stories about ordinary people, small towns and everyday struggles. — Jamie Graziano, Charlotte Observer, 31 July 2026 For several candidates, those visions involve building out transit networks within Jackson County in order to connect the cities and towns scattered east of Kansas City. — Ilana Arougheti july 30, Kansas City Star, 30 July 2026 The Greater Manchester region has a population of about 3 million and includes the city of Manchester and surrounding towns. — ABC News, 30 July 2026 Further abuses have been recorded everywhere from big cities like Los Angeles and Milwaukee to small towns in South Carolina and Illinois. — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 30 July 2026 How a Power Line Became a Broadband Backbone While many towns in North America were connecting to optical fiber in the early 2000s, the subarctic communities were left out. — IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2026 The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps followed up by releasing high-resolution satellite images showing damage to two Amazon data centers located at the coastal towns of Zallaq and Askar in Bahrain. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 30 July 2026 Like Lowery, many in the small towns of Lumberton and nearby Pembroke are citizens of the Lumbee Tribe who have dealt with heart conditions. — Andrew Jones, NPR, 30 July 2026 When other towns have found out about secret data-center plans, there has been serious backlash. — Ethan Brooks, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for towns

Noun

Flock says the cameras are used by public safety agencies, neighborhood homeowners associations, business managers and college campuses across cities in the United States.

— Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 26 July 2026
Downtown Neighbors Alliance President James Torres said the city of Miami should examine how other cities like New York and Miami Beach have cracked down on short-term rentals.

— Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 25 July 2026

Definition of cities

Noun

Copenhagen topped the Economist Intelligence Unit’s ranking of the world’s most livable cities for the second year in a row, though Chinese metropolises made the largest gains.

— Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 8 July 2026
The party often endorses the same candidates as the DSA and is readying to target more mayoral offices in the country’s biggest metropolises this fall and in 2028.

— Matt Brown, Fortune, 20 June 2026