towns
- 1Plural of town.
The railway once connected dozens of mining towns across the valley.
Smaller towns often struggle to keep their young people from moving away.
Note
A regular plural, but it covers only the countable uses of town. When town is simply a place you are in or heading to, with no article, it has no plural: you are back in town, never back in towns. The plural belongs to settlements counted one by one, especially in compounds such as market towns or mining towns, where the -s attaches to town rather than to the word before it.
towns is a form of town
town, noun: A settlement with residential areas, shops and amenities, and its own local government, especially one larger than a village and smaller than a city. Full entry
- Forms
- towntowns plural
- Spelling
- town → towns: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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