TOWNSFOLK Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

townsfolk

noun

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as in townspeople

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Recent Examples of townsfolk His body, however, was never retrieved, and townsfolk continued to blame him for the murder of Chrissy Cunningham and the spooky events that followed in the once sleepy Midwest town. —

Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025 For Morrison, Limon football is the inevitable force that helps keep him and the rest of the townsfolk going. —

Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 28 Nov. 2025 Agnes is both a seer and healer, preparing natural remedies for the townsfolk to help with ailments and sickness. —

Nathan Smith, Time, 26 Nov. 2025 In a flash 300 people—ski patrol, maintenance, townsfolk—were there to help probe and search through the slide. —

Michael Paterniti, Travel + Leisure, 14 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for townsfolk

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town

Noun

Our neighbors were Blacks and Puerto Ricans, working-class Irish and Italians, and some Jews who hadn’t yet moved on, plus the legions of us new immigrants, from Asia and Eastern Europe and the Caribbean, who’d ended up in this commuter town north of New York City.

— Chang-rae Lee, New Yorker, 3 May 2026
One afternoon in November, just north of the small Oregon coastal town of Yachats, a juvenile humpback whale tumbled ashore.

— Robin Romm, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026