Downtown
Town
Town noun - A thickly settled, highly populated area.
Usage example: after driving for miles with nothing but corn and wheat fields to look at, we were relieved to roll into a small town and have a bite to eat at the local diner
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Synonyms for Town
Downtown and town are semantically related. You can use "Downtown" instead the word "Town" as an adjective or a noun.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Night clubs in fiction are always much cooler, bigger, and cleaner than the ones you find in the downtown of your town (unless your town happens to be New York City, Atlanta, Tokyo, Ibiza or London).
Source: Coolest Club Ever -
Aliens in Cardiff: While the intro chapter is in downtown Los Angeles, the bulk of the game takes place in a tiny desert town called Dryfield in the middle of the Mojave Desert in Nevada.
Source: Video Game / Parasite Eve 2 - Bully has the town of Bullworth, which has the rich suburb Old Bullworth Vale and the downtown political and commercial district Bullworth Town separated from the inner city ghetto New Coventry and the rough blue collar industrial neighborhood Blue Skies Industrial Park by a railway bridge.
Source: Urban Segregation
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