(adv. & prep.) Formerly: (a) An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. [Obs.] (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. [Obs.] (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls.
(adv. & prep.) Any number or collection of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop.
(adv. & prep.) Any collection of houses larger than a village, and not incorporated as a city; also, loosely, any large, closely populated place, whether incorporated or not, in distinction from the country, or from rural communities.
(adv. & prep.) The body of inhabitants resident in a town; as, the town voted to send two representatives to the legislature; the town voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways.
(adv. & prep.) A township; the whole territory within certain limits, less than those of a country.
(adv. & prep.) The court end of London;-- commonly with the.
(adv. & prep.) The metropolis or its inhabitants; as, in winter the gentleman lives in town; in summer, in the country.
(adv. & prep.) A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard.
Example Sentences:
(1) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
(2) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(3) A more substantial decrease was found in Aberdeen and the larger towns near to Aberdeen than in the smaller towns further from the city.
(4) He had been just asked to open their new town hall, in the hope he might donate a Shakespeare statue.
(5) Nearly four months into the conflict, rebels control large parts of eastern Libya , the coastal city of Misrata, and a string of towns in the western mountains, near the border with Tunisia.
(6) The case was tried in a town called St Francisville, the closest courthouse to Angola.
(7) The autopsy findings in 41 patients with University of Cape Town aortic valve prostheses were studied.
(8) It will act as a further disincentive for women to seek help.” When Background Briefing visited Catherine Haven in February, the refuge looked deserted, and most of its rooms were empty, despite the town having one of the highest domestic violence rates in the state.
(9) He said: "This is a wonderful town but Tesco will suck the life out of the greengrocers, butchers, off-licence, and then it is only a matter of time for us too.
(10) Conservative commentators responded with fury to what they believed was inappropriate meddling at a crucial moment in the town hall debate.
(11) The article reflects the experience in the work of the manual therapy consulting-room at the Smela town hospital named after N. A. Semashko in Chernigov Province from November 1985 to December 1987 inclusive.
(12) In October, an episode of South Park saw the whole town go gluten-free (the stuff, it was discovered, made one’s penis fly off).
(13) But no one was sure, and in this information vacuum the virus reached nearby towns and crossed borders.
(14) But last year Rosi Santoni, one of the relatives who helped look after her, said she had plenty of family to care for her and had many friends in the town.
(15) He wound up repossessing the cars of workers who fled town after the bust.
(16) It was shown that: although the oral hygiene level was very low and no dental treatments were performed, caries level was very low--although gingivitis rate was high, advanced periodontitis rate was low--the frequency of interincisive diastema (one subject out of 4 in the 15-19 age group), the progressive decline of tooth cutting, a traditional practice, in town people but the large extent of cola use (one adult out of two).
(17) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
(18) Referee: Peter Bankes (Merseyside) This gnome, who lives in the shrubbery of Guardian gardening expert Jane Perrone, will be rooting for Luton Town this afternoon.
(19) Barbacoas is a small port town in south-west Colombia, which linked the southern regions of the country in the 19th and 20th century.
(20) In 2013, the town’s municipal court generated $221,164 (or $387 for each of its residents), with much of the fees coming from ticketing non-residents.
Townhouse
Definition:
(n.) A building devoted to the public used of a town; a townhall.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rather than an off-plan Oxshott monster-mansion, he moved his family to an elegant Eaton Terrace townhouse in south-west London.
(2) The Blairs' property portfolio already includes a £3.6m townhouse and an £800,000 adjoining mews house in Connaught Square, London, two flats in Bristol and the constituency home in Trimdon, Co Durham, which Blair bought when he was elected MP for Sedgefield in 1983.
(3) While political turmoil could make London's townhouses an even more attractive safe haven for wealthy Russians and Ukrainians, a spokesperson said: "We've seen no real change and nor do we expect any."
(4) Many homes costing more than £2m are "fairly ordinary townhouses", he wrote.
(5) Property experts say homes similar to the 115-year-old stucco-fronted townhouse fetch rents of around £25,000 a week and could sell for as much as £12m.
(6) says billionaire Alexander Lebedev, sitting on a brown leather sofa in his comfortable three-storey Moscow townhouse.
(7) In her day this was a gritty neighbourhood and it hasn’t changed much, with a shabby market by the metro station and blocks of peeling townhouses; this is the real, old Paris, the world she sang about, with its desperate cast of thieves and tramps and lovers.
(8) Rental crisis: it's now impossible for most poor families to find a home Read more Graham Marshall, 48, was living in a three-bedroom townhouse in Sydney paying $540 a week in 2013 (he says the same place now costs about $700 a week) when he was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis.
(9) Premier Inn has 72 hotels in Greater London, Travelodge has 67, Holiday Inn 38 and Ibis 24; and all brands continue to expand: a fifth Hub by Premier Inn is set to open on Goodge Street, Fitzrovia, for example; Ibis Styles is opening in west London; while Z hotels is adding Covent Garden and Soho to its collection of listed townhouses in 2018.
(10) Jim McCormick's property in Bath McCormick is married with two children, and his family have the run of a farmhouse deep in the Somerset countryside, a £3.5m townhouse in Bath with a basement swimming pool that was previously owned by the Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage, and a holiday home in Cyprus.
(11) A few doors down on the opposite side you can check in at Maison Fredon , an 18th-century townhouse newly restored in rough-luxe style, its five bedrooms (from €120 a night) decked out with random pieces by the likes of Philippe Starck (him again), Benjamin Spark, Antonio Segui, Mies Van der Rohe as well as eccentric flea market finds.
(12) On Wednesday, the nation learned the downsizing would also include diplomatic residences abroad – starting with the Victorian townhouse that was once the Greek consul general's residence in London.
(13) On the north side of Union Square there is a terrace of tall, early-Victorian townhouses.
(14) Portugal stays CITIES 1 Gorgeous townhouse, Lisbon Facebook Twitter Pinterest Casa Das Merceeiras is two apartments in an 18th-century Alfama townhouse, beautifully restored by owner Teresa Albarran.
(15) In Olhão, White Terraces (+289 119 616, whiteterraces.com) has five sensational townhouses from €40-€130 per day, or €225-€850 per week, depending on the size of property and season.
(16) Jane Jacobs was right that Greenwich Village was a magical space – but now those townhouses in the Village start at $8m Edward Glaeser Facebook Twitter Pinterest Author Jane Jacobs and architect Philip Johnson stand outside New York’s Penn Station in 1963 to protest the building’s demolition.
(17) He owns an estate, several townhouses and a lucrative steel, sugar, textile and paper empire.
(18) It’s because throwing your family’s dinner in the bin, or swapping your five-bedroom townhouse for a council flat, is entirely fruitless.
(19) EMI bought Townhouse Studios in 1993, eventually selling the site to the Sanctuary Group in 2002, which in turn sold it on to Universal in June 2007.
(20) Gay Talese backtracks on book comments: everything I said is the truth Read more The profile is hefty, at 15,000 words, so the interview, conducted in Talese’s stately Upper East Side townhouse, was split up over two days.