town

town
noun
1 place with many streets and buildings
ADJECTIVE
▪ big, large, major
▪ little, small, tiny (esp. AmE)
▪ nearby, neighbouring/neighboring, surrounding
▪ ancient, historic, medieval, old
▪ new
▪

It was built as a new town in the 1960s. (BrE)

▪ company (esp. AmE), factory (esp. AmE), farm (esp. AmE), industrial, mill, mining
▪

a 19th-century mill town that used to produce cotton

▪ busy
▪

a busy market town

▪ boom, thriving
▪

Rio was a boom town and trade was thriving.

▪

a thriving mining town

▪ dusty, sleepy
▪

the dusty border town of Eagle Pass, Texas

▪

a sleepy provincial town in southern France

▪ remote
▪ country, provincial, rural
▪ county (BrE)
▪

Exeter, the county town of Devon

▪ home, native
▪

She has gone back to live in her home town.

▪ border, frontier
▪ mountain, prairie (esp. AmE)
▪ beach (esp. AmE), coastal, seaside (esp. BrE)
▪

the sun-drenched beach towns of Southern California

▪ holiday (BrE), resort
▪ cathedral, college (AmE), market, university (esp. BrE)
▪ dormitory (BrE), satellite
▪ fortified
▪

Kitzbühel is an ancient fortified town.

▪ shanty
▪ ghost
▪

It's been a ghost town since the gold rush ended.

▪ twin (BrE)
▪

Darlington's twin town of Amiens

VERB + TOWN
▪ build, found
▪ live in
▪

How many people live in the town?

▪ get out of, leave, move out of, skip (informal, esp. AmE)
▪

He left town yesterday for a conference in Cape Town.

▪

They wanted to move out of town and start a new life in the country.

▪ surround
▪

the rolling hills that surround the town

TOWN + VERB
▪ flourish, grow
TOWN + NOUN
▪ centre (BrE)
▪ hall, square, walls
▪ council
▪ meeting
▪ life
▪ planning
PREPOSITION
▪ in town
▪

They'll be back in town tomorrow.

▪ out of town
▪

I was out of town last week.

▪

an out-of-town superstore

▪ outside (the) town
▪

a lake just outside the town

PHRASES
▪ the centre/center of (the) town, the middle of (the) town
▪ the edge of (the) town, the outskirts of (the) town
▪ from town to town
▪

I spent years moving from town to town.

2 main part of a town, with the shops/stores, etc.
VERB + TOWN
▪ go into, hit (informal)
▪

I'm going into town—can I get you anything?

▪

Millie hit the town, looking for excitement.

PREPOSITION
▪ in town
▪

Dad's in town shopping.


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