Suburb
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
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How words are described
| full | full suburb | full town |
| nice | nice suburb | nice town |
| normal | normal suburb | normal town |
| typical | typical suburb | typical town |
| Other adjectives: small, actual, entire, real, large, little, quiet, main, sunny, white, major, sleepy, abandoned, fictional, next, last, nearby, modern, neighboring, western, unnamed, southern. | ||
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While the Eastern part of town still maintains its old small town feel, the western part is a gigantic suburb, which you can easily see traveling on 288.
Source: Useful Notes / Houston - In many ways, the town of Cicely in Northern Exposure qualifies as a suburb/colony of Cloudcuckooland.
Source: Cloudcuckooland - Shown Their Work: The town of Fort Repose is based off Mount Dora, a town in Florida (today a suburb of Orlando) where the author lived at the time, and accurately references other small towns in the same area.
Source: Literature / Alas, Babylon
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