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PRONUNCIATION OF MAN ABOUT TOWN

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MAN ABOUT TOWN

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determiner
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Man about town is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MAN ABOUT TOWN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of man about town in the English dictionary

The definition of man about town in the dictionary is a fashionable sophisticate, esp one in a big city.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MAN ABOUT TOWN

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man and boy
man boobs
Man Booker Prize
Man fern
man flu
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man in the moon
man in the street
man jack
man lock
man management
man manager
man o´ war
man of God
man of straw
man of the world
man orchid
man up
man-at-arms

WORDS THAT END LIKE MAN ABOUT TOWN

boom town
chief town
commuter town
company town
county town
downtown
garrison town
ghost town
go to town
hick town
home town
market town
new town
on the town
one-horse town
post town
resort town
shanty town
small town
spa town
twin town

Synonyms and antonyms of man about town in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «man about town» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MAN ABOUT TOWN

Find out the translation of man about town to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of man about town from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «man about town» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

男子约镇
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hombre de ciudad
570 millions of speakers

English

man about town
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शहर के बारे में आदमी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الرجل عن البلدة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

человек о городе
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

homem sobre a cidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মানুষ সম্পর্কে শহর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

homme du monde
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lelaki mengenai bandar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Man About Town
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

社交家
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

마을 에 대한 사람
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wong babagan kutha
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

người đàn ông về thị trấn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நகரம் பற்றி மனிதன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शहर बद्दल माणूस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Adamım kasaba hakkında
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Man About Town
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Człowiek z miasta
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

людина про місто
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

om despre oraș
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

άνθρωπος για την πόλη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

man oor die dorp
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mannen på stan
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

mann om byen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of man about town

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MAN ABOUT TOWN»

The term «man about town» is regularly used and occupies the 60.298 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MAN ABOUT TOWN» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MAN ABOUT TOWN»

Discover the use of man about town in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to man about town and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Man About Town: A Novel
Sexy, smart, and deftly observed, Man About Town is a new twist on the idea that the personal is political and a must read for anyone who's ever wondered what happened to that first crush.
Mark Merlis, 2010
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Man About Town
"Fashion-forward men--and women--will be intrigued...eye-catching, informative and entertaining...according to Hayward and Dunn, fast-changing fashion (even if what's new is actually retro) is a defining element of 20th-century culture, and ...
Catherine Hayward, Bill Dunn, 2001
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Mr. Brown's letters to a young man about town: with The ...
with The proser and other papers William Makepeace Thackeray. brings. So«lso it is natural that a man should like the society of people well-to-do in the world ; who make their houses pleasant, who gather pleasant persins about them, who ...
William Makepeace Thackeray, 1866
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Everyman's style guide: How to be the man about town
All the rules are changing.
Infinite Ideas, 2012
5
Fun and Fancy in Old New York: Reminiscences of a Man About Town
This is a second collection of 20 essays serialized in the "New York Clipper" between 1868-69 under the title, "Reminiscences of a Man About Town," with three additional pieces included that are also believed to have been penned by well ...
Tom Picton, William L. Slout, 1996
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The Man about Town: Short Stories, Philosophical ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Harry Tucker, 2012
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The Fortune Hunter, Or, the Adventures of a Man about Town; ...
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 edition. Excerpt: .
Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie, 2013
8
The Advocate
Merlis's new book, Man About Town, is something else entirely: It is the very model of a conventional gay novel. Though it deals with many of Flight's themes ( the homosexual mindset, the old man-young man relationship, the power of the ...
9
The City in Slang
A man about town around 1900 was a bon vivant, a "high-liver," a Broadway boulevardier. O. Henry in "Man About Town" (1906) wrote a whole story that played with the futility of defining man about town, much less of finding a specimen.
Irving L. Allen, 1995
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LIFE
MOVIE. OF. THE. WEEK: French. comedy. has. Chevalier. as. an. aging. wolf. Maurice Chevalier has not made a movie for 12 years, but after seeing Man About Town he still seems to be the most charming man in the world. Returning to the ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MAN ABOUT TOWN»

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Kirklinton Hall's garden: a paradise lost and found - Telegraph
“It proclaims, 'I'm not a hick, I'm a sophisticated man about town, but equally I'm not Mr Smiggins who has just made a fortune in trade – I've ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
Coronation Street Blog: The Connor clan expands further
Johnny will be a "man about town", a self made man in his own right, ITV describes him as "Funny, charming, ruthless in business, Johnny is ... «Coronation Street Blog, Jul 15»
3
Phoenix Foundation to hold fundraiser at Mavs game tonight
Also, 2015 Man About Town Eric Schmidt will be throwing out the first pitch. For information on purchasing tickets for this cause, call ... «Victorville Daily Press, Jul 15»
4
I never hated Brett Favre, because I never worshipped him
Favre was a man about town with Frank Winters and Mark Chmura (of all people), he had the Sterger text message thing after he left, and by ... «Acme Packing Company, Jul 15»
5
1940s Armijo school paper gossip columns entertain
That man about town Norm “Droolie Boy” Bourke was seen at the old canteen with none other than one of those blonde bombshells from ... «Fairfield Daily Republic, Jul 15»
6
People on Bikes: SE Clinton and 25th
Will is a man about town in Portland. You might have read his work on The Prudent Cyclist and you probably remember his name attached to ... «BikePortland.org, Jul 15»
7
Top gigs in Sydney: Royal Headache, Tigers Jaw, Johnny Marr …
The guitar man about town, British rock legend Johnny Marr has played for everyone from the Smiths – his most famous outing – to the Cribs ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
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This video of a guy trying out "offline dating" is dividing opinion
Tom, a single man about town, went on a mission to meet a woman 'offline' and convince her to go on a date with him. Oh, and him and his ... «Cosmopolitan UK, Jul 15»
9
New voice on the landscape
[Recently] I gave the CN&R's Jason Cassidy kudos for his coverage on the death of Chico's man about town, Moondog. What made you start ... «Chico News & Review, Jul 15»
10
A Conversation With Farah on Heritage, Function and More
The Farah consumer is the quintessential young man about town. He is intelligent and culturally savvy, confident and outgoing. He dresses in a ... «Highsnobiety, Jul 15»

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