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
  • The second story in the Faraway trilogy, the film and book follow three siblings who move to the English countryside and discover a magical tree and its fantastical inhabitants.
    — Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 30 July 2026
  • Zainetti said emergency teams have been hard at work to try and secure the village so inhabitants can safely return soon.
    — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 28 July 2026
Definition of inhabitants
Noun
  • In past weeks, authorities shut down cafes in central Tehran that were popular with residents during the ceasefire.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2026
  • An evacuation shelter was opened at a community college for residents fleeing their homes.
    — Martin Goillandeau, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of residents
Noun
  • Troopers say none of the five occupants was wearing a seat belt.
    — Brian Maass, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2026
  • So, Civil Code Section 4785 empowers HOAs to compel the occupants of the homes to temporarily leave so termite treatment can occur.
    — Kelly G. Richardson, Oc Register, 31 July 2026
Definition of occupants
Noun
  • Their replacements might be anonymous shadow dwellers, but that’s OK.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026
  • It's been a hot, dry year for the southwestern United States, and water levels on the Colorado River are low, raising questions for Southwestern urban dwellers about whether cities like Las Vegas will run out of water in the near future.
    — Carly Sauvageau, USA Today, 28 July 2026
Definition of dwellers
Noun
  • The town of Brignoles in the Var department in southern France has a population of between 600 and 700 villagers that were also forced to evacuate the region as wildfires fueled by a heat wave and strong winds continues to impact southern Europe.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 30 July 2026
  • During the incident, villagers came out of their homes to confront the settlers and a standoff ensued, with video appearing to show one of the Palestinians grabbing a settler’s weapon.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 27 July 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
  • Pricing, for now, is under wraps – although pre-orders are open for Chinese nationals on its website.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Wadkins went to nationals her junior year for a documentary about Kitty Cone and the 504 sit-in after placing second at the state-level National History Day competition.
    — Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 1 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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