townswomen

noun

plural of townswoman
as in inhabitants

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  1. inhabitants
  2. residents
  3. occupants
  4. dwellers
  5. villagers
  6. burghers
  7. nationals
  8. habitants
Noun
  • Today, roughly 22% of land in cities with over 1 million inhabitants is used for parking.
    — George C. Lee II, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The tornado wreaked havoc in the village of 1,000 inhabitants, reducing homes to rubble and destroying numerous cars.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of inhabitants
Noun
  • Back then, 50 yuan was roughly equivalent to a month’s income for many rural residents.
    — CNN Staff, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Others were injured and over 200,000 residents were without electricity on Sunday morning.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of residents
Noun
  • In November, California voters will elect a new governor, fill other statewide offices and choose occupants of 152 legislative and congressional seats.
    — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Before the shooting broke out, the victim and other occupants of the residence were playing cards, according to the Winter Garden Police Department.
    — Rylan DiGiacomo-Rapp, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of occupants
Noun
  • It’s seen as particularly beneficial for apartment dwellers and renters and would provide users with a relatively inexpensive way to lower their electrical bills by generating some of their own electricity.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
  • For instance, more than half of African city dwellers live in slums, meaning their homes are impermanent, overcrowded, and often without easy access to water and toilets.
    — Ryan Lenora Brown, Christian Science Monitor, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of dwellers
Noun
  • Kristinka Lazar, for example, used the time as an artistic residency to create a collection of paintings called The Gift of Being Seen, featuring 45 portraits of local villagers.
    — Liz Provencher, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Luwi wanted to compile the villagers’ memories into a report, creating an archive of his own.
    — Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 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
  • That 2023 event saw Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups kill 1,195 Israelis and foreign nationals and abduct 251 people.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 22 Aug. 2026
  • This can affect foreign nationals’ abilities to bank, use credit cards, or even pay bills.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of nationals
Noun
  • Accordingly, the First Continental Congress wrote to Quebec’s habitants – residents of French origin – to invite them to join their new nationalist project.
    — Sarah M.S. Pearsall, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
  • One of those new habitants, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced last week, was Lily Pond in Long Island.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
Definition of habitants
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“Townswomen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/townswomen. Accessed 29 Aug. 2026.

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