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Town hall or townhall?

town hall is a noun meaning “A building that houses the local government offices of a town”; townhall is a noun meaning “Alternative form of town hall”. town hall is written as two words and townhall as one word; they are used differently.

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What is the difference between town hall and townhall?

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Part of speechnounnoun
Meaning

A building that houses the local government offices of a town

The town council

Alternative form of town hall

ExampleThe president plans to speak to a town hall of employees at its headquarters on Mondaynone recorded
Formsnonetownhalls
Pronunciationnot recordednot recorded
In writingnot counted (the list counts single words)about once in every 6 million words

Sources: town hall and townhall in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Every current meaning of town hall and townhall

town hall

  1. 1

    noun A building that houses the local government offices of a town

  2. 2

    noun The town council

  3. 3

    noun CanadaUSA widely accessible meeting, particularly where the audience is allowed to interact with the speakers

    The president plans to speak to a town hall of employees at its headquarters on Monday

townhall

  1. 1

    noun Alternative form of town hall

Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.

Which is more common, town hall or townhall?

town hall is a phrase, which the list of single words does not count; townhall about once in every 6 million words.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How many people search town hall vs townhall?

“town hall vs townhall” is searched about 1,000 times a month on Google and 10 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“townhall vs town hall”, “town hall or townhall”).

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