Hastings vs town

Hastings and town both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Hastings	Yes	No	No	No
town	Yes	No	No	No

Hastings (noun)	town (noun)
the decisive battle in which William the Conqueror (duke of Normandy) defeated the Saxons under Harold II (1066) and thus left England open for the Norman Conquest	the people living in a municipality smaller than a city
a town in East Sussex just to the south of the place where the battle of Hastings took place	an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city
United States architect who formed an important architectural firm with John Merven Carrere (1860-1929)	an administrative division of a county