Town definition
Town is a noun meaning "an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city." It has 3 meanings, listed below with example sentences.
- Part of speech
- noun
- Syllables
- 1
- Letters
- 4
- How common
- Everyday word
Town as a noun
an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city
"they drive through town on their way to work"
the people living in a municipality smaller than a city
"the whole town cheered the team"
Same sense: townspeople, townsfolk
an administrative division of a county
"the town is responsible for snow removal"
Same sense: township
Synonyms and antonyms
- townspeople
- townsfolk
- township
How to say town
Town has 1 syllable and rhymes with down. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.
Words that rhyme with town
- down
- brown
- crown
- downtown
- breakdown
- touchdown
- clown
- hometown
- gown
- drown
- countdown
- shutdown
TOWN in word games
- Scrabble
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Anagrams
- 2
Is TOWN a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check TOWN in the word checker, or unscramble TOWN to see its 2 anagrams and the shorter words in its letters.
Definitions and examples from Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Browse more words in the dictionary.