Town Live Taʊn University Spent People Life Clubs

• a university town
• they live in a rough part of town.
• the nearest town is ten miles away.
• we spent a month in the french town of le puy.

town

1. a place with many houses, shops/stores, etc. where people live and work. It is larger than a village but smaller than a city
• see also small-town
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/small-town
• a university town
• They live in a rough part of town.
• The nearest town is ten miles away.
• We spent a month in the French town of Le Puy.
2. the people who live in a particular town
• The whole town is talking about it.
3. the area of a town where most of the shops/stores and businesses are
• see also downtown
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/downtown_3
• Can you give me a lift into town?
4. a particular town where somebody lives and works or one that has just been referred to
• see also out-of-town
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/out-of-town
• I'll be in town next week if you want to meet.
• He married a girl from out of town.
• The gossips finally drove her out of town.
• This restaurant serves the best steaks in town.
5. life in towns or cities as opposed to life in the country
• Pollution is just one of the disadvantages of living in the town.
6. a man who frequently goes to fashionable parties, clubs, theatres, etc.
• In his new suit, he looked quite the man about town.
7. to do something with a lot of energy, enthusiasm, etc., especially by spending a lot of money
• They really went to town on the decorations for the party.
8. the most important thing of a particular type, or the only thing that is available
9. visiting restaurants, clubs, theatres, etc. for entertainment, especially at night
• a night on the town
• How about going out on the town tonight?
10. to go to a lot of different bars, clubs, etc. and enjoy yourself

Extra Examples

• Dad’s in town shopping.
• Darlington’s twin town of Amiens
• Exeter, the county town of Devon
• He left town yesterday for a conference in Cape Town.
• How many people live in the town?
• I spent years moving from town to town.
• I was out of town last week.
• I’m going into town—can I get you anything?
• It was built as a new town in the 1960s.
• It’s been a ghost town since the gold rush ended.
• Kitzbühel is an ancient fortified town with fine medieval buildings.
• London was a boom town and the stock market was soaring.
• Millie hit the town, looking for excitement.
• Mum’s in town doing some shopping.
• Rio was a boom town and trade was thriving.
• She has gone back to live in her home town.
• They wanted to move out of town and start a new life in the country.
• They’ll be back in town tomorrow.
• a 19th-century mill town that used to produce cotton
• a busy market town
• a lake just outside the town
• a sleepy provincial town in southern France
• a thriving holiday town
• an out-of-town superstore
• the dusty border town of Eagle Pass, Texas
• the rolling hills that surround the town
• the sun-drenched beach towns of Southern California
• Do you prefer the town to the country?
• I’ll be in town next week if you want to go out for a drink.
• Sackville is a small university town in eastern Canada.

Word Origin

• Old English tūn ‘enclosed piece of land, homestead, village’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch tuin ‘garden’ and German Zaun ‘fence’.