Last Updated ：2025/11/28

town and gown

Noun

UK capitalized idiomatic sometimes uncountable

(chiefly UK, idiomatic, sometimes capitalized) On the one hand, the members of the city, borough, or similar community near a university and, on the other hand, the students and faculty of the university itself, especially when understood as rivals in a state of tension or conflict.

Japanese Meaning

大学所在地近辺に住む一般市民（タウン）と、大学コミュニティ―つまり学生や教職員（ガウン）―の双方を指し、しばしば相互に緊張状態や対立関係がみられることを表す概念です。

What is this buttons?

The dispute over the proposed development reopened deep divisions between town and gown in the college town.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

その開発案をめぐる対立は、地元住民と大学関係者の間に根深い亀裂を再び生じさせた。

Details

Sense（1）

[H]owls, curses, flights of brickbats, stones shivering windows, groans of wounded men, cries of frightened females, cheers of either contending party as it charged the enemy from Carfax to Trumpington Street, proclaimed that the battle was at its height. In Berlin they would have said it was a revolution, and the cuirassiers would have been charging, sabre in hand, amidst that infuriate mob. In France they would have brought down artillery, and played on it with twenty-four pounders. In Cambridge nobody heeded the disturbance—it was a Town and Gown row.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation