A town's a type of settlement ranging from a few hundred to several thousand (occasionally hundreds of thousands) inhabitants, although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan areas; the precise meaning varies between countries and isn't always a matter of legal definition. Usually, a "town"'s thought of as larger than a village but smaller than a "city", though there're exceptions to this rule. The word "town"'s of native Germanic origin, from Old English tūn, an enclosed piec… (More on Town)