Word.ws English Dictionary

dogtown

dogtown is the alternative form of dog town.

Meaning of dog town

Noun

dog town (plural dog towns)

  1. A community of prairie dogs.
    • This ferret feeds on prairie dogs and lives in their abandoned burrows; although it will feed on other small prey, it never thrives away from the dogtowns.2004, Nora Bowers, Rick Bowers, Kenn Kaufmann, Mammals of North America, page 118
  2. (colloquial) A town at which a play is performed for a less important audience to gauge the likelihood of general success.
    • He's rehearsing his first-born for a dog-town opening next week.1917, W. J. Thorold, Arthur Hornblow, Perriton Maxwell, Theatre Magazine, volume 25, page 42

Proper noun capitalized: Dogtown

Dogtown

  1. A census-designated place in San Joaquin County, California, United States.

Forms of dogtown

pluraldogtowns

Questions about dogtown

What does dogtown mean?
Dogtown means a census-designated place in San Joaquin County, California, United States.
What is dogtown the alternative form of?
Dogtown is the alternative form of dog town.
What part of speech is dogtown?
Dogtown is a proper noun.

Words near dogtown in the dictionary

  1. dogtoothing
  2. dogtooths
  3. dogtopia
  4. dogtor
  5. dogtors
  6. dogtown
  7. dogtowns
  8. dogtrot
  9. dogtrots
  10. dogtrotted
  11. dogtrotting

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dogtown (page history and authors); Dogtown (page history and authors); dog town (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “dogtown.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/dogtown. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.