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townsman

noun towns·man \ ˈtau̇nz-mən \
|Updated on: 21 Jul 2018

Definition of townsman

1 a : a native or resident of a town or city
b : an urban or urbane person
2 : a fellow citizen of a town

Examples of townsman in a Sentence

  1. thousands of townsmen turned out to vote on the school budget

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First Known Use of townsman

before 12th century

in the meaning defined at sense 1a

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townsman Synonyms

Synonyms

burgher, citizen, townie (or towny), villager;

Antonyms

noncitizen;

Near Antonyms

alien, foreigner, guest, nonnative, tourist, transient, visitor;

gownsman;

Related Words

townswoman;

cliff dweller, denizen, dweller, habitant, inhabitant, national, native, occupant, resident, resider, subject;

town, townsfolk, townspeople;

suburbanite, urbanite;

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