Place and Town

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Place noun - The area or space occupied by or intended for something.

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Town is a synonym for place in function topic. In some cases you can use "Town" instead a noun "Place", when it comes to topics like region.

Nearby Words: placed, placement, placing, placer, placet

Town noun - A thickly settled, highly populated area.

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Place is a synonym for town. You can use "Place" instead a noun "Town".

Nearby Words: township, townsman

full	full place	full town
nice	nice place	nice town
normal	normal place	normal town
specific	specific place	specific town
Other adjectives: perfect, certain, original, single, actual, entire, real, large, little, quiet, remote, beautiful, peaceful, final, next, weird, strange, last, different.

For instance in 2010, amid increasing incidences of armed robbery around the city of Benin, the Oba of Benin conducted a new ritual intended to cleanse the town and place a curse on all robbers.

Source: Royal Blood
Since then the place has become a Ghost Town and a place where plants and animals have won back ground on humans.

Source: The '80s
It had been a thriving town during a gold rush but when the gold dried up everyone else in town abandoned the place.

Source: Mayor of a Ghost Town

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