TOWNSWOMEN Synonyms: 30 Similar and Opposite Words

townswomen

noun

plural of townswoman

as in inhabitants

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Noun

For a long time, bunkers were designed to protect inhabitants from the fallout of nuclear weapons.

— Megan Buerger, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026
More than 90 percent of Gaza’s inhabitants are internally displaced.

— KHALED ELGINDY, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of inhabitants

Noun

Hundreds of mourners later gathered at Rehman Baba cemetery for mass funeral prayers as grief gripped the neighborhood and announcements echoed from mosque loudspeakers, urging residents to join in prayers for those killed.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
Under constant threats from above, residents live largely in a spider’s world, with roads, sidewalks and gas stations draped in netting to entangle drones.

— Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of residents

Noun

But locks evolved rapidly in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when growing numbers of city dwellers became increasingly concerned about rising theft and the security of their property.

— Shayla Love, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026
Gray noise, per The New York Times, may sound like wind blowing or steady rainfall and works for apartment dwellers sensitive to sharp or fluctuating noises.

— Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of dwellers

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Naibaho described how some villagers in Sumatra are paid up to 15 million Indonesian rupiah ($846) to poach a baby orangutan.

— Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026
Authorities had moved the start of a curfew forward without ensuring that villagers working outside knew about it.

— Tamir Sorek, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 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

The figures classify overseas attendees as those who are not Singaporean nationals.

— Jenny Lee,Matthew Tan, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2026
Then, two Ukrainian nationals were arrested, raising questions about state involvement and presenting a test of loyalty for some of Kyiv’s European allies.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 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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