(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.
Windsor
Definition:
(n.) A town in Berkshire, England.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was only up to jurors to decide if the hotel owner, West End Hotel Partners, and former operator, Windsor Capital Group, should share in the blame.
(2) Source: Reuters Dirty old river If the notion of an Englishman’s castle as his home is being challenged on the Levels, where scores of properties flooded, the bursting of the Thames from its banks a few hundred yards from the royal castle of Windsor has raised the issue to a new height.
(3) Sitting in the back of Nigel Farage's Volvo, as we are driven from a long lunch in Tunbridge Wells to a town hall gathering in Windsor, at which the UK Independence party (Ukip) leader is due to speak, I'm struggling to dispute any of those findings.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest We are most amused … The Windsors, starring Harry Enfield and Hadyn Gwynne, centre.
(5) I visited with him two summers ago during a brief visit to Windsor as part of the Equestrian Games being held there.
(6) She has been dubbed "Kingsmead's queen" after the quarry near Windsor where she was found, but experts from Wessex archaeology have more properly called her "a woman of importance".
(7) Bill Shorten has used the ALP conference to claw back some authority I Lenore Taylor Read more While the notion of a federal Icac has won support in the past from independents such Tony Windsor and senator Nick Xenophon, the major parties have shown a distinct lack of appetite for such a body.
(8) John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of Corn Flakes, also invented the sunbed, patenting his first device in 1896 – by royal appointment no less, as Edward VII apparently kept one at Windsor Castle for his gout.
(9) When not at the palace, Edward stayed at Fort Belvedere, his bolthole in Windsor Great Park.
(10) The Queen is scheduled to take a short walk from Windsor Castle tomorrow, meeting the public and unveiling a plaque as she celebrates her 90th birthday.
(11) The former banker had told the court he did not own Carlton House, nor an £18m 100-acre estate near Windsor called Oakland Park, once owned by computers billionaire Michael Dell, nor an apartment in Albert Court, a gated complex near Lord's cricket ground.
(12) Nevertheless I am thankful that Elizabeth Windsor has ruled the roost rather than some of those likely to have become president in her place.
(13) After numerous false starts, Windsor has declared he will stand for New England against the new deputy prime minister at the next election.
(14) Windsor ended months of speculation by announcing his decision, first on ABC Tamworth and then in Canberra.
(15) In the Doma case, Windsor v United States, a group of almost 300 corporations and employers including Fortune 500 companies have also signed an amicus brief calling for an end to Doma.
(16) Some startlingly grand privately owned buildings have repeatedly appeared on the annual register of the most important listed buildings at risk – virtually all the HHA properties are listed, and many are also scheduled ancient monuments or set in grade I gardens – including garden buildings and follies at Castle Howard in Yorkshire and Frogmore mausoleum, which holds some of the Queen's ancestors, in the grounds of Windsor Castle.
(17) There is one very obvious potential role model, and it is emphatically not that of her histrionic late mother-in-law – rather the Windsors' stalwart, long-serving and self-effacing patriarch.
(18) Shenhua passes on mining licence application for $1.2bn Watermark mine Read more At the time, Barnaby Joyce said it was “payback” for Windsor’s support for the minority Labor government.
(19) Philip, who has notched up 22,191 solo engagements in his long career, will spend more time at Windsor, where the Queen spends her weekends.
(20) A simple technique, developed in Phillips (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, 1987), is used to approximate cov(theta MH, pi), i = 1, 2, where theta MH is the Mantel-Haenszel log-odds-ratio estimator for a 2 x 2 x K table and the pi are the sample marginal proportions.