Thesaurus results for TOWNS

towns

noun

plural of town

as in cities

a thickly settled, highly populated area 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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Recent Examples of towns The coastal towns of Calpe and Dénia, where every winter almost all of professional cycling’s teams are based for their pre-season training camps, are 25 miles away. — Chris Marshall-Bell, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026 Best Apparel Deals The right apparel can make long days on the trail, at the campsite, or exploring nearby towns far more comfortable, and REI’s Labor Day Sale includes it all. — Kaitlin Marks, Travel + Leisure, 3 Sep. 2026 Hop on e-bikes and ride past grazing llamas and wild flamingos to nearby towns. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Sep. 2026 Surrounding Ain Ebel are the ruins of towns and villages hit by relentless Israeli bombardment, bulldozing and controlled demolitions. — Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2026 Retailers must rethink investments in stores, particularly in coastal towns where Mother Nature strikes the fiercest. — David Moin, Footwear News, 2 Sep. 2026 Many more were recorded as injured in the week since the flooding destroyed towns and swept away structures, according to Nepali officials. — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026 At least 165 people have been killed, and hundreds more are missing after catastrophic floods swept through towns and valleys along the border between Nepal and China's Tibet region. — Jennifer Jett, NBC news, 27 Aug. 2026 Natural Disasters Hundreds of people are dead, and at least 1,400 are missing, after a massive wall of water crashed through towns in Nepal and Tibet, an autonomous region of China. — Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for towns

Noun

Others are already moving confidently through modern cities, studying, working and shaping lives increasingly separate from traditional expectations.

— PhotoVogue, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2026
Despite their apparent effectiveness at deterring speeding, cities have been slow to embrace rest in red.

— Jeff McMurray, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of cities

Noun

Copenhagen topped the Economist Intelligence Unit’s ranking of the world’s most livable cities for the second year in a row, though Chinese metropolises made the largest gains.

— Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 8 July 2026
The party often endorses the same candidates as the DSA and is readying to target more mayoral offices in the country’s biggest metropolises this fall and in 2028.

— Matt Brown, Fortune, 20 June 2026