town

Etymology
From, from , from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬), from , from  (compare archaic 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from. . See also and.

Noun



 * 1) A settlement; an area with residential districts, shops and amenities, and its own local government; especially one larger than a village and smaller than a city, historically enclosed by a fence or walls, with total populations ranging from several hundred to more than a hundred thousand (as of the early 21st century)
 * 2) Any more urbanized centre than the place of reference.
 * 3)  A rural settlement in which a market was held at least once a week.
 * 4) The residents (as opposed to : the students, faculty, etc.) of a community which is the site of a university.
 * 5) A major city, especially one where the speaker is located.
 * 6)  A townhouse.
 * 7)  A municipal organization, such as a corporation, defined by the laws of the entity of which it is a part.
 * 8)  An enclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor; by extension, the whole of the land which constituted the domain.
 * 9)  A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard.
 * 10)  London, especially central London.
 * 1)  A rural settlement in which a market was held at least once a week.
 * 2) The residents (as opposed to : the students, faculty, etc.) of a community which is the site of a university.
 * 3) A major city, especially one where the speaker is located.
 * 4)  A townhouse.
 * 5)  A municipal organization, such as a corporation, defined by the laws of the entity of which it is a part.
 * 6)  An enclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor; by extension, the whole of the land which constituted the domain.
 * 7)  A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard.
 * 8)  London, especially central London.
 * 1)  A municipal organization, such as a corporation, defined by the laws of the entity of which it is a part.
 * 2)  An enclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor; by extension, the whole of the land which constituted the domain.
 * 3)  A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard.
 * 4)  London, especially central London.
 * 1)  A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard.
 * 2)  London, especially central London.

Usage notes

 * An urban city is typically larger than a rural town, which in turn is typically larger than a village. In rural areas, a town may be considered urban. In urban areas, a town can be considered suburban; a village in the suburbs. The distinctions are fluid and dependent on subjective perception.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: ақалақь
 * Adyghe: къалэ
 * Afrikaans:
 * Ahom: 𑜋𑜦𑜧
 * Ainu: コタン
 * Albanian: ,
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic:, ,
 * Egyptian Arabic: مدينة
 * Moroccan Arabic: مدينة
 * South Levantine Arabic: بلد, مدينة
 * Aragonese: ziudat
 * Archi: шагьру
 * Armenian: ,
 * Aromanian:
 * Assamese: নগৰ, চহৰ
 * Asturian: ,
 * Avar: шагьар
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Baekje: 夫里
 * Bashkir: ҡала
 * Basque: herri
 * Bavarian: Ståd
 * Belarusian: го́рад, ме́ста, мястэ́чка
 * Bengali: ,
 * Breton:, , , kumunioù
 * Bulgarian:, касаба́,
 * Burmese:
 * Buryat: хото
 * Carpathian Rusyn: мі́сто
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Cebuano: lungsod
 * Chamicuro: chi'nashtalichi
 * Chechen: юрт, гӏала
 * Cherokee: ᎦᏚᎲᎢ
 * Chichewa: tawuni
 * Chickasaw: okla
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 城市, 城鎮, 鎮
 * Dungan: чыншы, чын, шы, чынпу
 * Eastern Min: 城市
 * Hakka: 城市
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Wu: 城市, 鎮
 * Chuvash: хула
 * Coptic: ⲃⲁⲕⲓ
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Eastern Mari: ола
 * Egyptian:
 * Elfdalian: stað
 * Erzya: ош
 * Esperanto:, urbeto
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, , , ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἄστυ, πολίχνιον
 * Greenlandic:
 * Gujarati: ,
 * Hausa:
 * Hebrew:, ,
 * Higaonon: banuwa
 * Hiligaynon: banwa, lungsod
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: kotamadya,
 * Irish:, baile mór
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kamba: taunii
 * Kannada:
 * Karelian: linna
 * Kashubian: gard
 * Kazakh:, шаһар
 * Khmer: ទីក្រុង,
 * Kikuyu: taoni
 * Kinaray-a: banwa
 * Komi-Permyak: кар
 * Korean:, ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladin: zità
 * Lao:, ຊຽງ, ນະຄອນ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lü: ᦵᦞᦇ, ᦵᦈᦲᧃᧈ, ᦵᦋᧂ
 * Luhya: mtauni, etauni
 * Macedonian: град, паланка
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: raħal,
 * Maori:
 * Marathi:, नगर
 * Meru: tauni
 * Moksha: ош
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠬᠣᠲᠠ
 * Nanai: хотон
 * Navajo: kin shijaaʼ, kin łání, kin
 * Nivkh: хота
 * North Frisian: steed
 * Northern Mansi:
 * Northern Thai: ᨩ᩠ᨿᨦ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: by
 * Odia:, ସହର
 * Ojibwe: oodena
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: градъ, мѣсто
 * Old East Slavic: градъ, мѣсто, городъ
 * Old English: burg, tūn
 * Old French: vile
 * Old High German: burg, stat
 * Old Turkic: 𐰉𐰞𐰶
 * Oromo: magaalaa
 * Ossetian: сахар, горӕт
 * Ottoman Turkish: قصبه, شهر, كنت
 * Pashto:
 * Pennsylvania German: Schtettel, Schteddel, Schteddelche, Schtettli, Schteddliche, Taun
 * Persian:
 * Classical Persian: ,
 * Iranian Persian:, ,
 * Plautdietsch: Staut
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Purepecha: iréta
 * Quechua:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: citad
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Sami:
 * Kildin Sami: ланнҍ
 * Ter Sami: ланнӭ
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scots: toun
 * Scottish Gaelic: baile
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: гра̑д, ва́рош, каса̀ба , па̀ла̄нка
 * Roman:, ,  ,
 * Shor: тура
 * Sinhalese:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: město
 * Upper Sorbian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, , ,
 * Tabasaran: шагьур
 * Tagalog:, syudad
 * Tajik:, қасаба
 * Tamil:
 * Taos: plòsoʼóna
 * Tashelhit: ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵔⵜ
 * Tatar: ,
 * Telugu: ,
 * Tetum: sidade, vila
 * Thai:, , ,
 * Tibetan: གྲོང་གསེབ, གྲོང་སྡེ, གྲོང་རྡལ
 * Tigrinya: ከተማ
 * Tongan: kolo
 * Tumbuka: tawuni
 * Turkish:, , ,
 * Turkmen: şäher
 * Tuvan: хоорай
 * Tzotzil: teklum, teklumal
 * Udmurt: кар
 * Ugaritic: 𐎓𐎗, 𐎎𐎄𐎐𐎚
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu: شَہَر, نَگَر
 * Uyghur: شەھەر
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:, (城埔),  (市鎮)
 * Volapük:
 * Waray-Waray: bungto
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yakut: куорат
 * Yiddish: שטעטל, שטאָט
 * Yoruba: ìlú
 * Yucatec Maya: kaah
 * Zhuang: cinq