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A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city . The size definition for what constitutes a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world .
The word town shares an origin with the German word Stadt , the Dutch word tuin , and the Old Norse tun . The German word Zaun comes closest to the original meaning of the word: a fence of any material. An early borrowing from Celtic *dunom (cf. Old Irish dun, Welsh din "fortress, fortified place, camp," dinas "city;"
In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead. In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, more specifically those of the wealthy, which had a high fence or a wall around them (like the garden of palace Het Loo in Apeldoorn , which was the example for the privy garden of William a