Definition of: town

(toun) noun
1. Any considerable collection of dwellings and other buildings larger than a village and comprising a geographical and political community unit, but not incorporated as a city.
2. The local government of such a community; also, the voters, the representatives, or the inhabitants collectively.
3. A subdivision of a county, usually rural, that may include a number of villages and towns; a township.
4. In New England, a local unit governing itself through a town meeting.
5. Brit. Originally, a collection of dwellings enclosed for security within some form of fortification; subsequently, any collection of dwelling houses larger than a village. ♦ Collateral adjective: oppidan.
6. A closely settled urban district as contrasted with the open country: town and country.
7. The city or town nearest to where one lives: a trip to town; also, the downtown or business section of a city or town.
8. A group of prairie-dog burrows,
—on the town
1. Dependent on municipal charity.
2. Slang On a round of pleasure in the city.
—to go to town Slang To succeed in the highest degree.
—to paint the town red Slang To carouse.
—adjective
1. Of or pertaining to, like, situated in, or for use in town: town clothes.
2. Supported by town funds: a town library. [OE tūn, tuun an enclosure, group of houses]
Town may appear as a combining form in hyphemes or solidemes, or as the first element in two-word phrases: