townees

noun

plural of townee, chiefly British
as in villagers

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  1. villagers
  2. burghers
  3. colonists
  4. migrants
  5. locals
  6. settlers
  7. newcomers
  8. nationals
Noun
  • Thousands of people attend the festivities, during which villagers wearing 18th-century period costumes reenact the 1781 Siege of Pensacola, a turning point in the American Revolution.
    — Geraldo L. Cadava, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026
  • There were ten of us, with several large sacks of nonperishable items—canned fish, soap, bottled water—along with more than six hundred arepas that the villagers had cooked the night before.
    — Armando Ledezma, New Yorker, 30 June 2026
Definition of villagers
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 burghers
Noun
  • Anticipation for the milestone holiday has been building for much of the year, serving as an opportunity for Americans to reflect on their complicated history as onetime colonists of an empire who became a superpower of their own.
    — Steven Sloan, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026
  • For example, Indigenous people shared their knowledge of making tea from local plants and herbs with colonists.
    — Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2026
Definition of colonists
Noun
  • However, our calculations show that population growth in Florida, particularly from out-of-state migrants, has nearly stopped.
    — Karin Brewster, The Conversation, 8 July 2026
  • The remote, inhospitable terrain serves as a natural biological barrier, though hundreds of thousands of migrants traverse the gap every year.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 7 July 2026
Definition of migrants
Noun
  • There has long been a divide between locals and out-of-town visitors over the giant canopies.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026
  • Fear over airstrikes on Iran, which pervaded many conversations with locals during the war, has evaporated.
    — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
Definition of locals
Noun
  • Some became stockmen, learning to ride settlers’ horses and using their deep knowledge of the land to muster cattle on horseback across vast landscapes.
    — Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
  • The history in Kaskaskia is as rich as the soil that attracted settlers in the first place and made it, for a time, Illinois’ most important place.
    — Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
Definition of settlers
Noun
  • The service For newcomers to the hospitality industry, the Myers are crushing it.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 July 2026
  • Sweet teeth practically chattering, the newcomers ended their night with the bar’s eponymous sundae, a gourmet Madagascan-vanilla ice cream topped with rose-water syrup and cashews.
    — Marina Harss, New Yorker, 10 July 2026
Definition of newcomers
Noun
  • Citing national security concerns, foreign nationals were abruptly banned access to the systems last month—so Anthropic took them both down.
    — Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Anthropic suspended its most capable models last month after the government ordered the company to curtail access for foreign nationals, citing national security concerns.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 2 July 2026
Definition of nationals
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