town square

collocation in English

meaningsoftownandsquare

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town
noun
uk
/taʊn/us
/taʊn/
a place where people live and work, containing many houses, shops, places of work, places of entertainment, etc., and usually larger than a village but smaller than ...
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square
adjective
uk
/skweər/us
/skwer/
having the shape of ...
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(Definition oftownandsquarefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftown square

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I mean the spatial totality, in thetownsquare, in the street, in 'cityform'; and not only that, but the space of everything around us.
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Mass graves of 30,000 people who died in the 1993 to 1994 period lie under the flowerbeds now lining thetownsquare.
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It has provided land in support of the council's proposals to create a newtownsquareand has contributed towards installing an integrated urban traffic control and signing system.
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There was an open air meeting in thetownsquare; there was a parade, a demonstration was held and there was also a dinner attended by very respectable people.
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He is remembered with great affection and his statue is in thetownsquareto celebrate what he did in terms of the corn laws and feeding the people.
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They did not know that there would be a show in the centre of thetownsquare.
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Clearly any sensible person would regard hitting someone over the head with a chair in atownsquare or throwing something through a window as an offence.
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Another disaster occurred in 1856 when a fire destroyed thetownsquareand 54 houses.
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The boy sleeps in the central park in thetownsquare.
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The left side of the church opens on thetownsquare.
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A statue of him is in thetownsquare.
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The station is named after thetownsquarewhere it is located.
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The centraltownsquareis named in his honor and the monument was erected in 2000.
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About one third of thetownsquareare private one-floor small houses.
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The trail leads to thetownsquarewhere all the public buildings are located.
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Most of the buildings are concentrated around atownsquarewith trees.
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Such a walk might start in thetownsquare.
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The first public well was dug in the city of thetownsquarein 1876.
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The local plaza (townsquare) is filled with carnival rides and booths.
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In 1648 the first of four church buildings on thetownsquarewas constructed.
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