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# town

«town» in Mova's school dictionary: **a place where many people live and work, bigger than a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (town, towns)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A town is a place where many people live and work, bigger than a village and smaller than a city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/town/#m1)

2) «Town» or «the town» can mean the centre of a place with the shops: «go into town». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/town/#m2)

3) The people of a town together are also called the town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/town/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: a place in distance problems (from one town to another); people living in a town; population. In geography: villages, towns and cities; maps; settlements. In everyday life: going into town, the town hall, a town square. Phrases: «in town», «go into town», «out of town», «hometown», «town hall».

### examples

- The two towns are 60 km apart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/town/#x1)
- 2500 people live in the town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/town/#x2)
- A bus goes from town A to town B. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/town/#x3)
- How far is it from the town to the lake? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/town/#x4)
- We went into town to buy new shoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/town/#x5)
- My grandparents live in a small town by the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/town/#x6)
- The town hall has a big clock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/town/#x7)
- The whole town came to watch the parade. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/town/#x8)
- "It was in a little town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/town/#x9)

### note

Countable: «a town». «Go into town» or «go to town» (no «the»). Maths: usually a place, not a number; the distance between towns is the quantity. Trap: «town A to town B and back» doubles the distance.

### In the corpora

- [In a democracy the grown-ups choose who runs the country and the town.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge/0/)
- [Nearly 2000 years ago a volcano buried a Roman town and burned a library of scrolls to black lumps that nobody could open.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/0/)
- [The eastern brown snake causes more serious bites because it lives near farms and towns where it meets people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die/5/)
- [Many gulls have moved into towns and nest on flat rooftops, because cities have food and safe roofs away from foxes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water/8/)
- [Picture a town where nobody has walked for 40 years: birches grow through flats, moss covers the roads.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «town» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/town/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.