TOWN, n. 1. Originally, a walled or fortified place; a collection of houses inclosed with walls, hedges or pickets for safety. Rahab's house was on the town wall. Josh. 2. A town that hath gates and bars. 1 Sam. 23.2. Any collection of houses, larger than a village. In this use the word is very indefinite, and a town may consist of twenty houses, or of twenty thousand.3. In England, any number of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop.A town, in modern times, is generally without walls, which is the circumstance that usually distinguishes it from a city.In the United States, the circumstance that distinguishes a town from a city, is generally that a city is incorporated with special privileges, and a town is not. But a city is often called a town.4. The inhabitants of a town. The town voted to send two representatives to the legislature, or they voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways.5. In popular usage, in America, a township; the whole territory within certain limits.6. In England,the court end of London.7. The inhabitants of the metropolis.8. The metropolis. The gentleman lives in town in winter; in summer he lives in the country. The same form of expression is used in regard to other populous towns. |
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