Word.ws English Dictionary

man-about-town

man-about-town is the alternative form of man about town.

Meaning of man about town

Noun

man about town (plural men about town)

  1. (idiomatic) A worldly, social man who frequents fashionable places.
    • I'm very much the man about town.

Forms of man-about-town

pluralmen-about-town

Questions about man-about-town

What is man-about-town the alternative form of?
Man-about-town is the alternative form of man about town.

Words near man-about-town in the dictionary

  1. man's man
  2. man's motherwort
  3. man's room
  4. man's rooms
  5. man'yōgana
  6. man-about-town
  7. man-arm
  8. man-arms
  9. man-at-arms
  10. man-bag
  11. man-bags

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: man-about-town (page history and authors); man about 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: “man-about-town.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/man-about-town. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.