town vs Ithaca

town and Ithaca both are nouns.

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

town (noun)	Ithaca (noun)
the people living in a municipality smaller than a city	a Greek island to the west of Greece; in Homeric legend Odysseus was its king
an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city	a college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga
an administrative division of a county