TOWNSWOMAN Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

townswoman

noun

Definition of townswoman

as in townsman

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Recent Examples of townswoman As the backstory evolved, Calico townswoman Sarah Marshall transformed into the Green Witch on the gallows, turned her accusing neighbors into monsters with a wicked curse and vanished in a puff of smoke with a cackling laugh. — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 17 Sep. 2025 One townswoman Wise befriended at work met her in a bathroom with a change of clothes and the ID badge of another woman who was out sick. — Desiree Stennett, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Oct. 2022

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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

Sea turtles now nest on the secluded sandy beach that’s for all intents and purposes private, save for villagers occasionally visiting the small oceanfront temple for ceremonies.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Oct. 2026
The villagers were allowed to return home late Monday afternoon, though a cordon remained around the three vehicles, police said.

— ALASTAIR GRANT, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of villager

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

The utility this weekend also de-energized lines around a brush fire that broke out Saturday, prompting evacuation orders several miles south of Lahaina town, the site of the 2023 deadly fires.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2026
Tight, familial church communities, huddled in isolated villages and small towns; people held in place; a striking lack of privacy and liberty.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of town

Noun

The rescissions would block $567 million appropriated for Health and Human Services programs for refugees, asylees and other non-citizens and $28 million for HHS research.

— Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2026
In the draft, Kennedy praised a citizen petition by David Kessler, a former head of the Food and Drug Administration, who asked the agency to scrutinize some of the core ingredients used in industrial processing.

— Rachel Roubein, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of citizen

Noun

There’s no excuse, though, for wheeling in some talkative NPC just to explain why the townsfolk are acting skittish.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2026
Maeve’s a fish out of water and sneers at all the townsfolk, except for one pretty boy (Costa D’Angelo).

— Randy Myers, Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2026

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