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Nov 3, 2022 · The preposition phrase "in a town" has no special meaning, it just means what it says. The phrase, "in town", however, functions as an adverb, roughly means "here, in the local area". Merriam-Webster describes it simply as "in this town", but it can be any place, not necessarily a town. Drew's in town this weekend This means Drew, who presumably doesn't live locally, is here, in this city/town ...
Jun 10, 2017 · Both are possible, but "in town" is significantly more idiomatic. "In town" not only means "in the town, as opposed to outside in a rural area", but also strongly connotes "visiting, on hand, close by".
Aug 13, 2021 · I checked Google Word for "best in town" and it looks like this phrase is commonly used for food and eateries. Both foods and eateries belong to a class of things that can be found only in some geographical location, hence the phrase 'in town'. I wonder if this phrase can be applied to something that can't be pinpointed to a particular physical location. For example, could I say something like ...
Mar 7, 2022 · As a countable noun you might say: I live in a town called Smallville. There are five major towns in my county. As an uncountable noun, meaning "land with houses, in contrast to countryside" Do you prefer life in town or on a farm? It also has a sense which is grammatically uncountable, meaning "This town" or "the local major town".
Oct 9, 2022 · As for using "town" about cities, I was thinking more of the fact that dictionaries explain the meaning of "city" in terms of "large town", which to me indicates that "town" would be a hypernym of "town" and "city" in much the same way as "dog" is a hypernym of "dog" and "bitch", but I guess I've drawn the wrong conclusion here.
Jul 22, 2017 · You forgot another sense of uptown and downtown. Sometimes uptown means the nice, wealthy part of town, and downtown means the run down poor part of town. One example is the song "Downtown" from the musical Little Shop of Horrors.
Nov 2, 2015 · Back to your original question about on vs. in our town: Yes, if you describe something you do at a certain place, it would be in a town. On a town evokes a sense of "coming from above"- it rains on a town (or any other random object).
Jul 10, 2019 · 1. He moved across town and he moved across the town can both be valid sentences, but they do not mean the same thing. Town is a very old word and has numerous different uses, some which are countable, and some which are not. When used without an article, town usually refers to the population center where one is located, or which is nearest.
A city is a legal entity, and can be large or small. Even a small town will have city limits --that is, the geographic border of the municipality's legal jurisdiction. The term village is not used often, at least not in American English, and when it is used, it often refers to a part of a city or town, or a neighborhood.
Jul 4, 2016 · I have heard "Out of town" idiom when people say that they were away. I wonder why there is no indefinite or definite article before the word 'town'? IMO, it should be the definite article becau...
