townee

noun

Definition of towneenext
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for townee
  1. burgher
  2. townsman
  3. villager
  4. newcomer
  5. colonist
  6. migrant
  7. local
  8. localite
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
  • Naibaho described how some villagers in Sumatra are paid up to 15 million Indonesian rupiah ($846) to poach a baby orangutan.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Authorities had moved the start of a curfew forward without ensuring that villagers working outside knew about it.
    — Tamir Sorek, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of villager
Noun
  • While Christen and Jude remained among the hottest brands to check out at showroom appointments, other names pinpointed by buyers included Hagelstam, Nomasei, Neous and the newcomers Ananyan and Kiana Ghavidel.
    — Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • But velvet ropes and VIP tiers can leave newcomers wondering whether the conversation is meant for them.
    — Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of newcomer
Noun
  • 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
  • Till then, although the frontier had been placed under imperial control, land-hungry colonists and companies kept pushing across it.
    — J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 29 Sep. 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
  • The Drink Like a Fish is suited perfectly to match the smooth locals-only energy at the Mermaid.
    — Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The daughters of burning witches were sometimes made to stand close to the pyre, being whipped by locals while watching their mothers die in agony.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of local
Noun
  • Our list of hard studying localites include, from Beachwood, Celia Edelstein and Dorian Miller.
    — Jeff Piorkowski/special to cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 26 Jan. 2018
Definition of localite

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“Townee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/townee. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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