Tra từ town - Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

1 towns, cities and villages
2 parts of towns
3 the government of towns
the countryside COUNTRY

1 towns, cities and villages
- a place with many streets and buildings: town
a university town ◎ a small market town
- a large and important town: city
the city of Birmingham
- the town or city where the government of a country is: capital, capital city
The capital of Sweden is Stockholm.
- connected with a town or a city: urban
problems of urban development ◎ the urban environment
- a person who lives in a town or city: inhabitant, (formal) citizen
- the people who live in a town: the people of somewhere, the (whole) town
the people of Glasgow ◎ The whole town was on the streets, waving flags and cheering.
- the town where you live or where you feel you belong: home town
- land which is away from towns and cities: the country (noun singular)
- a group of houses with a school, church, etc in the country: village; a person who lives in a village: villager
- connected with the countryside: rural
rural communities

2 parts of towns
- the centre of a town/city: town/city centre
- the main part of a town where the shops, offices, pubs, cinemas, etc are: town (noun U, only after a preposition)
My sister goes into town every Saturday to do the shopping. ◎ They live right in the centre of town.
- to or in the centre of a city: (especially AmE) downtown (adverb, adjective)
We're moving downtown. ◎ downtown Manhattan
- an area of a town: district, part of town
Which part of town do you live in?
- a particular part of a town and the people who live there: neighbourhood (AmE neighborhood)
It's a nice, friendly neighbourhood.
- an area of a town where people live, outside the centre: suburb
Most people live in the suburbs and travel to work in the centre of town.
- the parts of a town or city that are farthest from the centre: the outskirts (noun plural)
I live on the outskirts of Bradford.
- an area of a city where living conditions are very bad and the buildings have not been repaired for a long time: slum
The slums were cleared and replaced with blocks of flats.
- a very poor area on the outside of a town: shanty town
- an open space in a town or city that has buildings all around it: square
Trafalgar Square ◎ We lived on the other side of the square.
- a public garden with grass, trees and open spaces: park
※ roads etc
- a road in a town, etc that has shops, houses, etc on one or both sides: street (written abbreviation St)
Oxford Street ◎ to walk along the street
- the path at the side of the road that is for people to walk on: pavement (AmE sidewalk)
- a path under a busy road or railway that is for people who are walking: subway
- a road that goes around a city so that cars do not need to go through the centre: ring road (AmE beltway)
- an underground railway system in a town: underground (AmE subway)(noun singular); the London underground is often called the tube
to travel by underground
※ more on streets and railways ROAD, TRAIN
※ shops etc
- an area where there are many shops, especially in a large modern building outside the town centre: shopping centre
- a special area for shops where cars are not allowed: (BrE) shopping precinct, (BrE) pedestrian precinct; if the area of shops is covered (= has a roof), it is called a shopping centre, (especially AmE) (shopping) mall
- a place in a town where people go to buy and sell things, often in the open air: market, market place, market square
I'll meet you in the market place at half past eleven.
※ different kinds of shops SHOP
- more on markets SELL

3 the government of towns
- a group of people who are elected to manage the affairs of a town/city: (town/city) council; a member of a council: councillor
- the person who leads a council: mayor
- connected with the government of a town: municipal
the municipal offices ◎ municipal transport
- a large building that contains the town/city council offices: town/city hall