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Meaning of "toytown" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TOYTOWN

From Toy Town, the fictional setting of children's stories by Enid Blyton.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF TOYTOWN

toytown  [ˈtɔɪˌtaʊn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TOYTOWN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Toytown is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES TOYTOWN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Toytown

Toytown was a BBC radio series for children, broadcast for Children's Hour on the Home Service. The plays were based on a set of puppets created by S. G. Hulme Beaman, who also wrote the stories for the series. The first Toytown plays were broadcast in 1929, and the pool of stories was re-used until the end of Children's Hour. There were 31 plays in all. There were also some short films made during the 1970s which were broadcast on ITV. The series starred Larry the Lamb, the central character, and his clever sidekick, Dennis the Dachshund. In each story a misunderstanding, often arising from a device created by the inventor, Mr. Inventor, occurs which involves the Ernest the Policeman, the disgruntled Mr Grouser the Grocer and the Mayor. Larry the Lamb was always played by Derek McCulloch, Dennis at various times by Norman Shelley, Ernest Jay and Preston Lockwood, the Mayor by Franklyn Bellamy and Felix Felton, Ernest the Policeman by Arthur Wynn, Peter Claughton and Stephen Jack and the Inventor usually by Ivan Samson. The opening music was "The Parade of the Tin Soldiers" by Leon Jessel.

Definition of toytown in the English dictionary

The definition of toytown in the dictionary is having an unreal and picturesque appearance. Other definition of toytown is not deserving to be taken seriously.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TOYTOWN


Allentown
ˈælənˌtaʊn
Bridgetown
ˈbrɪdʒˌtaʊn
Cabbagetown
ˈkæbɪdʒˌtaʊn
Charlottetown
ˈʃɑːlətˌtaʊn
Chinatown
ˈtʃaɪnəˌtaʊn
dogtown
ˈdɒɡˌtaʊn
Freetown
ˈfriːˌtaʊn
Georgetown
ˈdʒɔːdʒˌtaʊn
Hogtown
ˈhɒɡˌtaʊn
intown
ˈɪnˌtaʊn
Jamestown
ˈdʒeɪmzˌtaʊn
Kingstown
ˈkɪŋzˌtaʊn
midtown
ˈmɪdˌtaʊn
Motown
ˈməʊˌtaʊn
Provincetown
ˈprɒvɪnsˌtaʊn
Queenstown
ˈkwiːnzˌtaʊn
shantytown
ˈʃæntɪˌtaʊn
Tinseltown
ˈtɪnsəlˌtaʊn
Yorktown
ˈjɔːkˌtaʊn
Youngstown
ˈjʌŋzˌtaʊn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TOYTOWN

toy-toy
Toyama
toybox
toychest
toyer
toyetic
toyi-toyi
toyish
toyishly
toyishness
toyless
toylike
toyman
Toynbee
Toynbee Hall
toyo
toyon
toyshop
toysome
toywoman

WORDS THAT END LIKE TOYTOWN

chief town
company town
Cookstown
county town
downtown
ghost town
go to town
home town
man about town
market town
new town
Newtown
on the town
out-of-town
resort town
small town
small-town
town
twin town
uptown

Synonyms and antonyms of toytown in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «toytown» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TOYTOWN

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

Translator English - Chinese

toytown
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Toytown
570 millions of speakers

English

toytown
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

डीईएफ़
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بينما ظلت
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Toytown
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Toytown
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

toytown
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Toytown
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Toytown
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

toytown
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

toytown
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

toytown
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Toytown
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Toytown
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

toytown
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

टॉयटॉउन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Toytown
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

toytown
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Toytown
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Toytown
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Toytown
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Toytown
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

toytown
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Toytown
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Toytown
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of toytown

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TOYTOWN»

The term «toytown» is regularly used and occupies the 81.767 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TOYTOWN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «toytown» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «toytown» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about toytown

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TOYTOWN»

Discover the use of toytown in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to toytown and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Toytown Helicopter
This is the first in a series of fantasy stories about the Toytown vehicles. In this story, the helicopter is late home because of heavy rain and the other vehicles are worried.
Jenny Giles, 2000
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The Toytown Fire Engine
The Toytown Fire Engine is returning to the garage when it sees a little cat stuck in a tree. The fire engine uses its extension ladder and successfully rescues the cat from its distressing situation.
Jenny Giles, 2000
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Waking Up in Toytown: A Memoir
The sequel to his haunting, celebrated account of a troubled childhood, Waking Up in Toytown is unsettling, touching, oddly romantic and unflinchingly honest. 'Burnside's memoir deserves to become a classic.
John Burnside, 2010
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Toytown Rescue
This is the second story in the PM Plus series about the Toytown vehicles. In this book, the bus has run off the road and is unable to move. The helicopter and the tow truck come to the rescue.
Jenny Giles, 2000
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The Toytown Racing Car
This is another story about the animated Toytown vehicles. The tow truck is not pleased when a racing car splashes it with mud. Soon the racing car becomes stuck in the mud. Should the tow truck help it?
Jenny Giles, 2001
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Jerry & Joe: The road to toytown. Trouble in toyland
A story about a greengrocer in Toytown and his donkey Joe.
Sidney George Beaman, 1925
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The Toytown Race Car: Student Reader (Level 11)
The new race car showed off and got stuck in the mud in Toytown.
Jenny Giles, Various, Rigby, 2000
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The Toytown Bus Helps Out
The Toytown Bus sees a fire at the top of the hill near the farm house so he quickly rushes to get the Firetruck to put out the fire.
Annette Smith, Jenny Giles, Beverley Randell, 2006
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The Fire on Toytown Hill
The Toytown fire engine is returning to the garage when it sees a fire up on a hill. When it realises that it can't put the fire out by itself, the fire engine radios the Toytown helicopter for assistance.
Jenny Giles, 2001
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Toytown Books
From the Toytown series broadcast by the BBC.
Sydney George Hulme Beaman, B. Hulme Beaman, 1961

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TOYTOWN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term toytown is used in the context of the following news items.
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Pinellas County pushing to offer Toytown landfill for development
PETERSBURG — With the real estate market heating up, Pinellas County officials say it's about time to ask developers to pitch their ideas for the former Toytown ... «Tampabay.com, May 15»
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Pinellas eyes solution for developing Toytown landfill: Remove the …
Though the location of the former Toytown landfill is prime, the roughly 25 years worth of buried household trash, construction debris, yard waste and sludge ... «Tampabay.com, Apr 15»
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Frank Gehry to build a toytown for Zuckerberg's Facebook crew
WELCOME to “Zee-Town”. Not content with dominating cyberspace, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, is developing his own waterside settlement to ... «The Australian, Feb 15»
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The Walking Dead Goes to Toytown
The Walking Dead Goes to Toytown. by Colm S. Herron ⋅ Posted on July 10th, 2014 at 12:21am ⋅ Last edit on July 11th, 2014. Colm S. HerronI'm a Creator at ... «moviepilot.com, Jul 14»
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Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall Welcome Toytown To British Horse …
Pregnant royal and Olympic equestrian Zara Phillips Tindall celebrated with her husband Mike Tindall as her World and European champion eventer Toytown ... «Fashion & Style, Dec 13»
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Retro photos of Baltimore's Thanksgiving Toytown Parade
The last Toytown parade was held in 1966 after 30 years of drawing thousands. Hochschild's closed its flagship store in 1977 and went out business for good a ... «Baltimore Sun, Nov 13»
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INTERVIEW: ToyTown's Brian Simpson
He may have only been in the industry three years, but Brian Simpson has already helped to lead ToyTown through an economic recession and into healthy ... «Toy News, Oct 13»
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Toytown and the city
Building sets provide a mirror for the real world of architecture. But do the kinds of constructions architects build as children really influence what they design ... «Financial Times, Aug 13»
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RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Toytown jihadists and a lack of political …
The senseless slaughter of a British serviceman on the streets of South-East London by a pair of deranged Toytown jihadists has followed the usual script, with ... «Daily Mail, May 13»
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Land developers play with visions for Toytown
PETERSBURG — The former landfill property known as Toytown is once again up for grabs. Florida Gateway Development I LLC, an entity including Bear Creek ... «Tampa Bay Business Journal, Oct 11»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Toytown [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/toytown>. May 2024 ».
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