town vs Athens

town and Athens both are nouns.

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

town (noun)	Athens (noun)
the people living in a municipality smaller than a city	the capital and largest city of Greece; named after Athena (its patron goddess)
an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city	a university town in northeast Georgia
an administrative division of a county	a town in southeast Ohio