old town

See also: oldtown

English

Alternative forms

• oldtown (very rare)

Noun

old town (plural old towns)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see old,‎ town.
2. The historic district of a city or town.

Coordinate terms

• downtown
• uptown

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)
• Hungarian: óváros (hu)
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• 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

Wikivoyage

• Oldtown on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Old Town on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• “old town”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.