town
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town |
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Kreis, archbishopric, archdiocese,
arrondissement, bailiwick, bishopric,
borough, burgh, burghal, canton, citified, city, civic, commune, community, congressional district, constablewick, county,
departement, diocese, district,
downtown, duchy, electoral district,
electorate, government, hamlet, hundred, interurban, magistracy, metropolis, metropolitan,
metropolitan area, midtown, municipal,
municipality, oblast, okrug, oppidan, parish, precinct, principality, province, region, riding, sheriffalty, sheriffwick,
shire, shrievalty, soke, stake, state, suburban, territory, township, uptown, urban, village, wapentake,
ward
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go to town |
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be blooded, be successful, catch on,
click, come off, connect, farewell, get cutting, go, go great guns, go off, go over, go over big, graduate, hit the ball, hump, lean on it, make a
hit, meet with success, pass, pour
it on, prevail, prosper, qualify, shake a leg, succeed, take, work well, work wonders
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man-about-town |
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Beau Brummel, arbiter of fashion, beau, blade, blood, bon vivant, boulevardier, city slicker, clotheshorse, clubman, clubwoman, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, coxcomb, dandy, deb, debutante,
dude, excellent companion, exquisite,
fashion plate, fashionable, fine
gentleman, fop, fribble, gallant, good company, good mixer, jack-a-dandy, jackanapes, joiner, lady-killer, macaroni, man of experience, masher, mixer, mondain, mondaine, nightclub
habitue, playboy, pleasant company, puppy, slicker, social lion, socialite, sophisticate, spark, sport, subdeb, subdebutante, swell, swinger, taste-maker, tone-setter, trend-setter
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paint the town red |
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carouse, celebrate, cut loose, debauch, hell around, jollify, jolly, lark, let go, let loose, let off steam, make merry, make whoopee, pub-crawl, raise hell, revel, roister, see life, skylark, spree, step out, wanton, wassail,
whoop it up
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talk of the town |
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acclaim, bruit, buzz,
canard, celebrity, character, common talk, cry, eclat, fame, famousness, figure, flying rumor, glory, grapevine, hearsay, idea afloat, kudos, latrine rumor, name, news stirring,
notoriety, notoriousness, on-dit, popularity, publicity, reclame, recognition, renown, report, reputation, repute, roorback, rumble, rumor,
scuttlebutt, talk, the bubble reputation,
town talk, unconfirmed report, vogue, whisper
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town hall |
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city hall, community center, county building,
county courthouse, court, courthouse,
courtroom, dock, fire station, firehouse, jury box, municipal building, police headquarters,
police station, precinct house, town house, witness box, witness stand
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town meeting |
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airing, analysis, assembly, bicameral legislature, board of aldermen, buzz session,
canvassing, chamber of deputies, city board, city
council, collective farm, collectivism, collectivity, collegiality, colloquium, commission, common council, common ownership, communal effort,
communion, communism, community, conference, congress, consideration, cooperation, cooperative society,
court, debate, debating,
deliberation, democracy, dialectic, dialogue, diet, discussion, examination, exchange of views, federal assembly, forum, general assembly, house of assembly, investigation, joint discussion, kibbutz, kolkhoz, legislative assembly, legislative body,
legislative chamber, legislature, logical analysis,
logical discussion, lower chamber, lower house, national assembly, open discussion, open forum,
panel discussion, parliament, profit sharing, provincial legislature, provincial parliament, public ownership,
rap, rap session, representative town
meeting, review, seminar, sharecropping, socialism, soviet, state assembly, state legislature, state ownership, study, symposium, treatment, unicameral legislature, upper chamber, upper house, ventilation
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Main entries similar to: town
archbishopric, bailiwick, bishopric, borough, burg,
canton, city, civic, commune, congressional district,
county, diocese, district, downtown, duchy, electorate, exurb, government, hamlet, hundred, interurban, local, magistracy, metropolis, midtown, municipal, municipality, outskirts, parish, place, polis, precinct, principality, province, region, riding, shire, stake,
state, suburb, suburban, suburbia, territory, township, uptown, village, ward
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