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 Named one of the most charming small towns in Alabama and under-the-radar mountain destinations, Mentone offers not only gorgeous views, but plenty of worthy accommodations from golf and ski resorts to dude ranches. — Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 16 July 2026 The small towns in southern Denton County are expecting to see tens of thousands of homes in the near future, but Montini said there’s no infrastructure to support the population growth. — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 July 2026 But the capture of both these towns is likely to involve a similarly gruesome and lengthy fight, putting an even optimistic assessment of attaining this key Moscow war goal at least a year away. — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 16 July 2026 The former was a concentration area for 200,000 refugees expelled from 247 localities, villages and towns and the area’s original 80,000 inhabitants; and the latter a frontier zone designed to incarcerate them. — Literary Hub, 16 July 2026 Whether in rural towns or sprawling cities, activists who can mobilize citizens to flood council meetings and hold picket signs are finding success. — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 16 July 2026 And the data confirms that these local towns and counties have benefited from having the monuments there. — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 16 July 2026 Once the eclipse ends, this rugged headland becomes an excellent place to watch the Perseids, with broad ocean views and little interference from nearby towns. — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 15 July 2026 Farms, small towns, roadside views that appear without announcement. — Rafael Peña, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026

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Noun

This is the Prairie School thumbprint that Condé Nast Traveler ranks among the world's best small cities for architecture lovers.

— Natalie Hoberman, Forbes.com, 18 July 2026
Those are just two examples of Russian FPV (first-person view) drones attacking civilians rather than military assets – a phenomenon that’s also playing out in the frontline cities of Kherson and Kramatorsk.

— Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN Money, 18 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