Town

1. adv. & prep. A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard.
2. adv. & prep. Formerly: (a) An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. [Obs.] (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. [Obs.] (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls.
3. adv. & prep. Any number or collection of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop.
4. adv. & prep. Any collection of houses larger than a village, and not incorporated as a city; also, loosely, any large, closely populated place, whether incorporated or not, in distinction from the country, or from rural communities.
5. adv. & prep. The body of inhabitants resident in a town; as, the town voted to send two representatives to the legislature; the town voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways.
6. adv. & prep. A township; the whole territory within certain limits, less than those of a country.
7. adv. & prep. The court end of London;– commonly with the.
8. adv. & prep. The metropolis or its inhabitants; as, in winter the gentleman lives in town; in summer, in the country.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.