Synonyms for town
Another word for town is townspeople, townsfolk or township. Below are 3 synonyms and 12 related words across 3 senses.
Also searched as: towns.
1. noun: an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city
2. noun: the people living in a municipality smaller than a city
- townspeople
- townsfolk
3. noun: an administrative division of a county
- township
Related words
Broader, narrower and sibling terms from the same WordNet tree. They aren't interchangeable, but one of them is often the word you wanted.
- market town
- ghost town
- boom town
- cow town
- hometown
- municipality
- burg
- cowtown
- borough
- administrative district
- administrative division
- territorial division
Town in word games
- Letters
- 4
- Scrabble
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 8
- How common
- Everyday word
- Unscramble TOWN
- Is TOWN a word?
- Words starting with T
Questions people ask
What is another word for town?
You can say townspeople, townsfolk or township instead of town. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city".
What is the opposite of town?
WordNet lists no direct antonym for town; the nearest opposites depend on which sense you mean.
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