town
US: /ˈtaʊn/
UK: /tˈaʊn/
UK: /tˈaʊn/
English Vietnamese dictionary
town /taun/
- danh từ
- thành phố, thị xã
- manufacturing town: thành phố công nghiệp
- out of town: ở nông thôn
- dân thành phố, bà con hàng phố
- the whole town knows of it: cả thành phố ai người ta cũng biết chuyện đó
- phố (nơi có phố xá đông đúc của thành phố, trái với ngoại ô)
- to go to town to do some shopping: ra phố mua hàng
- (Anh) thủ đô, Luân đôn
- to go to town: ra thủ đô, đi Luân đôn; (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ), (từ lóng) làm om sòm, gây náo loạn; (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ), (từ lóng) làm (hành động) nhanh và có hiệu quả; (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ), (từ lóng) thành công rực rỡ
- man about town
- (xem) about
- to paint the town red
- (từ lóng) làm om sòm, gây náo loạn, quấy phá (ở đường phố, tiệm rượu)
- woman of the town
- gái điếm, giá làng chơi
- thành phố, thị xã
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun
1 [C, U] a place with many houses, shops/stores, etc. where people live and work. It is larger than a village but smaller than a city: 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. + When she retired, she moved back to her home town (= the town where she was born and spent her childhood).
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Help Note: You will find other compounds ending in town at their place in the alphabet.
2 (the town) [sing.] the people who live in a particular town: I suppose the whole town is talking about it.
3 [U] the area of a town where most of the shops/stores and businesses are: Can you give me a lift into town?
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4 [U] (especially AmE) a particular town where sb lives and works or one that has just been referred to: I'll be in town next week if you want to meet for a drink. + He married a girl from out of town. + The gossips finally drove her out of town. + This restaurant serves the best steaks in town.
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5 [sing., U] life in towns or cities as opposed to life in the country: Pollution is just one of the disadvantages of living in the town.
Idioms: go to town (on sth) (informal) to do sth 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.
(out) on the town (informal) visiting restaurants, clubs, theatres, etc. for entertainment, especially at night: a night on the town + How about going out on the town tonight?
more at MAN n., PAINT v.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
township, village, hamlet, community; municipality, city, metropolis, borough, burgh:
She was born in Stornoway, a small town in the Outer Hebrides. We have to drive into the town to do our shopping.
Collocation dictionary
1 place with many streets and buildings
ADJ.
big, large, major | little, small | nearby, neighbouring, surrounding | ancient, historic, medieval, old | new
It was built as a new town in the 1960s.
| industrial | busy
a busy market town
| boom, thriving
London was a boom town and the stock market was soaring. a thriving holiday town
| sleepy
a sleepy provincial town in southern France
| country, provincial | county
Beverley was then the county town of the East Riding of Yorkshire (= the main town where the county offices were).
| home, native
She has gone back to live in her home town.
| border | coastal, seaside | holiday, resort | cathedral, market, university | dormitory, satellite | fortified
Kitzbuhel is an ancient fortified town with fine medieval buildings.
| shanty | ghost
It's been a ghost town since the gold rush ended.
| twin
Darlington's twin town of Amiens
VERB + TOWN
build, found | live in
How many people live in the town?
| get out of, leave, move out of
He left town yesterday for a conference in York. They wanted to move out of town and start a new life in the country.
TOWN + VERB
grow | flourish
TOWN + NOUN
hall, square, walls | council | life | planning
PREP.
in ~
They'll be back in town tomorrow.
| out of ~
I was out of town last week. an out-of-town superstore
| outside (the) ~
a lake just outside the town
PHRASES
the centre/middle of (the) town, the edge/outskirts of (the) town
2 main part of a town, with the shops, etc.
VERB + TOWN
go into
I'm going into town?can I get you anything?
PREP.
in ~
Mum's in town doing some shopping.
Concise English dictionary
townstaʊn
noun
+an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city
+an administrative division of a county
+the people living in a municipality smaller than a city
