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town

/taʊn/ 最頻出 頻度 426位

要点都会

意味

  1. 町
  2. 《the~;一つの町を指して言うとき a~》(田舎と区別して)都会;都会生活
  3. 《冠詞をつけずに》都心,(商店の立ち並ぶ)下町
  4. 《冠詞をつけずに》(ある地域の)主要な町(市);(一国の)首都
  5. 《the~》《集合的に;単数扱い》町の人たち,町民

例文

語源

英語の原文(Wiktionary)

Inherited from Middle English toun, from Old English tūn, from Proto-West Germanic *tūn, from Proto-Germanic *tūną, borrowed from Proto-Celtic *dūnom (“stronghold, rampart”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *duh₂-nós (“lasting, durable”), from *dewh₂- (“to last”) + *-nós. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tuun (“garden”), West Frisian tún (“enclosure, garden”), Dutch tuin (“garden”), German Low German Tuun (“fence”), German Zaun (“fence”), Danish tun, Swedish tun and Norwegian Nynorsk tun (“yard”); also archaic Welsh din (“hill”), Irish dún (“fortress”). Doublet of dun. See also -ton and tine (“to enclose”).

出典: Wiktionary「town」(CC BY-SA 4.0)

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