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town

1. 
a. a densely populated urban area, typically smaller than a city and larger than a village, having some local powers of government and a fixed boundary
b. (as modifier): town life
2. a city, borough, or other urban area
3. (in the US) a territorial unit of local government that is smaller than a county; township
4. the nearest town or commercial district
5. London or the chief city of an area
6. the inhabitants of a town
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Town

A concentration of residential and related buildings surrounded by countryside; typically smaller than a city and larger than a village.
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So dominant was this role, indeed, that Jewish holidays affected even some socioreligious aspects of the daily life and mercantile activity of the Shi'is in Baghdad and the adjoining Shi'i townlet of Kazimayn; this despite the fact that the Shi'is were notorious for boycotting Jews to the point of considering them untouchables.
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