Because this stick, though originally a very handsome one has been so knocked about that I can hardly imagine a town practitioner carrying it.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— a compactly settled area usually larger than a village but smaller than a city
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Macmillan
— a place where people live and work that is larger than a village but smaller than a city
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Other Word Forms
towns
Usage
12 uses of ‘town’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle