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Definition: Talk Of The Town |
Talk Of The TownNoun1. Idle gossip or rumor; "there has been talk about you lately". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Talk Of The TownSynonym: talk (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Conversation | Causerie, chat, chitchat; small talk, table talk, teatable talk, town talk, village talk, idle talk; tattle, gossip, tittle-tattle; babble, babblement; tripotage, cackle, prittle-prattle, cancan, on dit; talk of the town, talk of the village. |
Repute | Noun: distinction, mark, name, figure; repute, reputation; good repute, high repute; note, notability, notoriety, eclat, " the bubble reputation ", vogue, celebrity; fame, famousness; renown; popularity, aura popularis; approbation; credit, succes d'estime, prestige, talk of the town; name to conjure with. |
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Lyrics | I swear you're the talk of the town (Lady; performing artist: D'Angelo) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Talk of the Town (1942) Talk of the Town (2000) | |
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Expression using "talk of the town": be the talk of the town. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
talk of the town | 232 |
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| Language | Translations for "talk of the town"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | обект на клюки. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | on yleisenä puheenaiheena (is the talk of the town). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 持ちきり (hot topic), 持ち切り (hot topic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | もちきり (hot topic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alktay ofay ethay owntay comidilla del lugar. (various references) kasabanın diline düşmek (be the talk of the town), dillere düşmek (be the talk of the town, set tongues wagging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-h-k-l-n-o-o-t-t-t-w" | |
-5 letters: halftone, knothole, townfolk. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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