Definition of TOWNS. Meaning of TOWNS. Synonyms of TOWNS

Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word TOWNS. Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word TOWNS and, of course, TOWNS synonyms and on the right images related to the word TOWNS.

Definition of TOWNS

No result for TOWNS. Showing similar results...

Hanse towns
Hanse Hanse, n. [G. hanse, or F. hanse (from German), OHG. & Goth. hansa; akin to AS. h?s band, troop.] An association; a league or confederacy. Hanse towns (Hist.), certain commercial cities in Germany which associated themselves for the protection and enlarging of their commerce. The confederacy, called also Hansa and Hanseatic league, held its first diet in 1260, and was maintained for nearly four hundred years. At one time the league comprised eighty-five cities. Its remnants, L["u]beck, Hamburg, and Bremen, are free cities, and are still frequently called Hanse towns.
Townsfolk
Townsfolk Towns"folk`, n. The people of a town; especially, the inhabitants of a city, in distinction from country people; townspeople.
Township
Township Town"ship, n. 1. The district or territory of a town. Note: In the United States, many of the States are divided into townships of five, six, seven, or perhaps ten miles square, and the inhabitants of such townships are invested with certain powers for regulating their own affairs, such as repairing roads and providing for the poor. The township is subordinate to the county. 2. In surveys of the public land of the United States, a division of territory six miles square, containing 36 sections. 3. In Canada, one of the subdivisions of a county.
Townsman
Townsman Towns"man, n.; pl. Townsmen (-men). 1. An inhabitant of a town; one of the same town with another. --Pope. 2. A selectman, in New England. See Selectman.
Townsmen
Townsman Towns"man, n.; pl. Townsmen (-men). 1. An inhabitant of a town; one of the same town with another. --Pope. 2. A selectman, in New England. See Selectman.

Meaning of TOWNS from wikipedia

- A town is a type of a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them...
- with IBM PC compatibles. In 1993, the FM Towns Marty was released, a game console compatible with existing FM Towns games. The "FM" part of the name means...
- regions, usually a part of a ward in a city. This is a legacy of when smaller towns were formed on the outskirts of a city, only to eventually merge into it...
- The following is a list of Montenegrin cities/towns. The table below contains the cities' po****tions in the 2023 census and from the 2011 Montenegrin...
- the NBA Three-Point Contest in 2022. Towns was born in Edison, New Jersey to an African-American father, Karl Towns Sr., and a Dominican mother, Jacqueline...
- terms are "twin towns", "partnership towns", "partner towns", and "friendship towns". The European Commission uses the term "twinned towns" and refers to...
- Former names of all Slovakia´s towns and villages prior IWW (prior 1918) Historical demographic data of Slovak towns from Populstat site by Jan Lahmeyer...
- avoid the development of ghost towns once a mining resource has been fully extracted. The Middle East has many ghost towns and ruins that were created when...
- This is a list of towns and cities in the world believed to have 100,000 or more inhabitants, sorted by countries. Unless otherwise noted, po****tions...
- criteria in defining towns. They are: Statutory Town (ST): All places with a muni****lity, corporation, cantonment board, or notified town area committee,...