Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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alt. (context British spelling English) The main commercial or business area of a town, containing the principle shops, banks, restaurants and public traffic hub. n. (context British spelling English) The main commercial or business area of a town, containing the principle shops, banks, restaurants and public traffic hub.
Wikipedia
Town Centre may refer to:
- A town centre
- Town Centre Station on MTR Light Rail, in Tuen Mun, New Territories, Hong Kong
Usage examples of "town centre".
It was a village in the Japanese style, with shops and apartments clustered by the stream, and small groupings of cottages ringing the town centre north of the stream.
I lit up the sky at twilight over the square of a town, cast a few thunderbolts into the town centre, and deposited a tablet.
For one thing it has the sea, which will be handy if global warming ever reaches itsfull potential, though I can't see much use for it at present, and there are the sinuous parks, collectively known as the Pleasure Gardens, that neatly divide the two halves of the town centre and provide shoppers with a tranquil green place to rest on their long slog from one side of the centre to the other - though, of course, if it weren't for the parks there wouldn't be the long slog.
On the map it looked to be quite near by, practically in the town centre, but in reality it was a good two miles away at the far end of a bewildering wasteland of oil refineries, derelict factories, and acres of waste ground strewn with old girders and piles of jagged concrete.
Greg used to enjoy the souk-like atmosphere of the town centre, but the economic upswing was steadily squeezing street traders and spivs out of national life.
It was dark by the time they made their way through the town centre.
Fergus had his pickets on every possible approach to the town centre.
He told me how much he liked ``Coventry Town Centre'' and ``The Hospital for Imaginary Diseases'', was more critical of ``Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Mau Mau'', and didn't like ``Corrugated Irony''.
I heard nothing more until I bumped into an off-duty Verrando browsing the top shelf of a newsagent's in the town centre.
In the town centre he had no trouble asking the way to Playa Caldera, which he was told by helpful townspeople lay two miles out of town.
He'd walked by the railway station on his way to the town centre and paused a while to watch the police studying the mess from a safe distance.
In the town centre of Eldacre twelve corpses were hanging from the Moidart's gibbets.
Food, he said, could be found at either of the two main barracks, although there were still some shops and stalls in the town centre.