Dictionary entry

Town centre

Pronunciation

Pronunciation is not available for this entry.

Myanmar Meaning

Myanmar meaning is not available for this entry.

Definition

town /taƱn/ n ၁။ (က) [C] ၿမိဳ႕။ drive through the centre of town ❍ the historic town of Cambridge ❍ Norwich is my home town (ie where I was born or have lived for a long time). (ခ) [CGp] ၿမိဳ႕ေနလူထု။ ၿမိဳ႕။ The whole town turned out to welcome the team home. ၂။ [sing, U] ၿမိဳ႕။ What are the advantages of living in the town? ❍ town life. ၃။ [U] (after a prep and without the or a ) (က) ၿမိဳ႕။ ၿမိဳ႕တြင္း။ I'm going into town—do you want me to get you anything? ❍ be in/out of town (ie in/away from a particular town that is understood or has been referred to). (ခ) ၿမိဳ႕။ ၿမိဳ႕တြင္း။ go up to town to see a play. See also BOOM TOWN, COUNTY TOWN, DORMITORY TOWN, GHOST TOWN, SHANTY TOWN, SMALL TOWN ❏ go to town (on sth) [ IDM ] ( infml ) လႊတ္ေအာသည္။ ပံုေအာသည္။ အိတ္သြန္ဖာေမွာက္ ေအာသည္။ When they give parties they really go to town. ❍ The papers have really gone to town on the royal wedding (ie written about it at great length). ❏ (out) on the town [ IDM ] ( dated or joc ) ၿမိဳ႕တက္သည္။ ❏ town centre n ( esp Brit ) ၿမိဳ႕လယ္ေကာင္။ Compare DOWNTOWN ❏ town crier (also crier ) n (ေရွး) ေမာင္းလည္သူ။ ❏ town hall n ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ခန္းမ။ ❏ town house n ၁။ (ေက်းလက္တြင္ အိမ္ရိွသူ၏) ၿမိဳ႕တြင္းအိမ္။ ၂။ ၿမိဳ႕လယ္ရပ္ကြက္ရိွ အဆင့္ျမင့္သီးသန္႔ တိုက္အိမ္။ ❏ town planning n [U] ၿမိဳ႕ျပစီမံကိန္း။

Examples

  1. A small town
  2. An industrial town in China
  3. Mountains overlook the town on three sides.
  4. A town on the River Thames
  5. [town of] : The northern Belgian town of Onkerzele
  6. He moved to another part of town.
  7. [the outskirts/edge of town] : A large industrial development on the edge of town
  8. [be in town] : The crew was in town last week filming a new television series.
  9. [be out of town] : I’ll be out of town next week.
  10. [from out of town] : His girlfriend flew in from out of town.
  11. We’re going into town this afternoon.
  12. [the centre of town] : The hotel is conveniently situated near the centre of town.
  13. Most of the town was involved with the carnival.
  14. The park is owned and maintained by the town.
  15. I definitely prefer town to country.