Noun

(wikipedia town) (en noun)

A settlement; an area with residential districts, shops and amenities, and its own local government; especially one larger than a village and smaller than a city.

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Any more urbanized center than the place of reference.

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A rural settlement in which a market was held at least once a week.

The residents (as opposed to (gown): the students, faculty, etc.) of a community which is the site of a university.

(label) (Used to refer to a town or similar entity under discussion).

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(label) A municipal organization, such as a corporation, defined by the laws of the entity of which it is a part.

(label) An enclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor.

(label) The whole of the land which constituted the domain.

(label) A collection of houses enclosed by fences or walls.

(Palsgrave)

A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard.

Noun

(en noun)

(in Venezuela or the Dominican Republic) A slum on the periphery of a major city; a low to middle-class neighborhood in a lesser city.

(in some Spanish-speaking countries) A municipality or subdivision of a municipality.

(in the Phillippines) A barangay.

* 2008 , Resil B. Mojares, Beast in the Fields'', Gémino H. Abad (editor), ''Upon Our Own Ground: Filipino short stories in English: 1956 to 1972 , page 413,

In the barrio', they talked excitedly about the wood-gatherer's discovery. There was so much pushing and quibbling over details that by the time the ' barrio had organized itself to set out for Salug to investigate, dusk had already fallen.

(informal, US) An area or neighborhood in a US city inhabited predominantly by Spanish-speakers or people of Hispanic origin.

* 1993 , Diego Vigil, The Established Gang'', Scott Cummings, Daniel J. Monti (editors), ''Gangs: The Origins and Impact of Contemporary Youth Gangs in the United States , page 98,

After World War II, its prospering working-class white residents moved to other, more upscale suburban developments, and by the 1950s the area had become an isolated ethnic enclave with its own barrio gang.

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