(UK, Ireland) A town in the British and Ireland that is a member of the Transition Towns movement and is striving to develop a higher standard of living and an environmentally friendly future.

(UK, chiefly London, traditional or poetic) London, predominantly the central fifteen or so boroughs.

(slang, US, derogatory) Any poor town or out-of-the-way place.

A town paired with another through town twinning.

(Britain) A town considered to be the administrative centre of a stannary region in Devon and Cornwall

A small, unimportant, place.

(idiomatic, dated) A person, male or female, who is admired and very popular in local society, and who is sought after to attend parties, public events, etc.

Pertaining to a small town; provincial.

(Scotland) The settlement in which the parish church is. A church town. / A glebe.

(informal) To abscond from one's place of residence suddenly, without warning.