TOWNEE Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

townee

noun

Definition of townee

chiefly British

as in burgher

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Recent Examples of townee As they're greeted by a sleeker and sexier group of performing townees, Melissa and Josh are confused, to say the least. — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2023

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Noun

Like the yeoman boys are out in the barn, half-naked, working out, buffing up and wearing animal heads and preparing for some kind of an inchoate battle with the burghers.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
These works, painted by artists such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Ferdinand Bol, and Bartholomeus van der Helst, depict the powerful merchant-burghers who shaped the political and social fabric of Golden Age Amsterdam.

— Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025

Definition of burgher

Noun

These were probably composed by Sebastian Lotzer, a townsman and furrier, on the basis of hundreds of complaints that different groups of peasants had been formulating for weeks beforehand.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
One cut scene, Good recalls, featured a townsman sacrificing himself with a homemade net bomb.

— Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 21 Aug. 2025

Definition of townsman

Noun

Andrey Khrzhanovskiy, a blogger who filmed the assault, said the settlers beat Levine with sticks while the journalists and villagers were forced to retreat.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026
Armando Babani / Getty Reuters found no evidence of wrongdoing by Kushner, who is not directly involved in the villagers’ dispute.

— Reuters, NBC news, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of villager

Noun

About 95% of early voters also cast ballots in the 2024 presidential election, a reminder that the first wave is dominated by more regular voters and not newcomers.

— Charles Minshew, AJC.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Still, California’s appeal to some newcomers hasn’t translated into stronger overall migration numbers.

— Preston Fore, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of newcomer

Noun

The original model for the kind of adversarial speech the First Amendment aims to protect, McGrane said, was the speech American colonists used against the British.

— Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 15 Oct. 2026
The animals reached Spain during the Roman Empire and were later brought to what is now Mexico by Spanish colonists in the 1500s.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of colonist

Noun

Angela, an undocumented migrant, knew many evangelicals in Brazil.

— Johanna Bard Richlin, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026
Jude’s modern twist on Octave Mirbeau’s novel follows Gianina (Ana Dumitrașcu), a Romanian migrant working as a live-in housekeeper and nanny for a wealthy family in present-day Bordeaux.

— Katherine Brodsky, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of migrant

Noun

There are so many over-the-top displays across the borough that locals formed a group called Staten Island Haunted Houses to pin them on a custom Google map.

— Fiorella Valdesolo, Curbed, 21 Oct. 2026
Elephants ramble into gardens and cheetahs kill the occasional goat, but the overall opinion of locals is shifting, especially as the Namibian government signals support for conservation that’s more in step with local interests.

— Samantha Falewée, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Oct. 2026

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