old town

See also: oldtown and Old Town

English

Alternative forms

• oldtown (very rare)

Noun

old town (plural old towns)

1. The historic district of a city or town.

   Coordinate terms: downtown, uptown, new town

2. 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 storicco 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

Wikivoyage

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

References

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