old town

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old town^¹

noun old towns · oldtown

sometimes, with the The historic district of a city or town. He's living in old town these days.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see old, town. St. Augustine, Florida, is a seriously old town by New World standards.

Old Town^²

proper noun

A city in Penobscot County, Maine, United States.
A village in Wadsworth parish, Calderdale borough, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SD9928).

proper noun the Old Town

An area in the centre of Stockholm, Sweden; Gamla stan in Swedish. The whole of the Tunnel system is controlled by the Underground Central Control Office, which is situated in Icarus House, a four-storey building in the Old Town.

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noun older historical part of a town or city

Español	casco antiguo, casco viejo
Français	vieille ville
Deutsch	Altstadt
Italiano	città vecchia, centro storico
עברית	הָעִיר הָעַתִּיקָה ha'ír ha'atiqá

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@misc{old_town_2026,
  title = {old town},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/old%20town},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}