towned

English

Etymology

town +‎ -ed

Adjective

towned (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Having towns; containing many towns.
    • 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:
      the continent is of an huge and vnknowen greatnesse , and very well peopled and towned, though savagely

References

“towned”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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