old town

See also: oldtown and Old Town

English

Alternative forms

oldtown (very rare)

Noun

old town (plural old towns)

The historic district of a city or town.
Coordinate terms: downtown, uptown, new town
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see old,‎ town.

Translations

older historical part of a town or city

Basque: alde zahar
Estonian: vanalinn
Finnish: vanhakaupunki (fi)
French: vieille ville f
German: Altstadt (de) f
Hebrew: הָעִיר הָעַתִּיקָה f (ha'ír ha'atiqá)
Hungarian: óváros (hu)
Italian: città vecchia f, centro storico m
Lithuanian: senamiestis m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: gamleby m

Nynorsk: gamleby m
Polish: starówka (pl) f, stare miasto (pl) n
Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
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”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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