old town

See also: oldtown

English

Alternative forms

oldtown (very rare)

Noun

old town (plural old towns)

Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see old,‎ town.
The historic district of a city or town.

Coordinate terms

Translations

older historical part of a town or city

Basque: alde zaharra
Estonian: vanalinn
Finnish: vanhakaupunki (fi)
German: Altstadt (de) f
Hebrew: הָעִיר הָעַתִּיקָה‎‎ f (ha'ír ha'atiqá)
Italian: città vecchia f, centro storico m

Norwegian:
Bokmål: gamleby m

Nynorsk: gamleby m
Spanish: casco antiguo m, casco viejo
Swedish: gammelstad (sv) c, gamlestad (sv) c, gamla stad c

See also

Oldtown on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Old Town on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

“old town” (US) / “old town” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.

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