TOWNSWOMEN Synonyms: 30 Similar and Opposite Words

townswomen

noun

plural of townswoman

as in inhabitants

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Noun

The cave’s inhabitants also extracted marrow from bones for sustenance, according to the study.

— Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026
Shakhtar Donetsk Watching Champions League evenings unfold at Stamford Bridge without its usual inhabitants, Chelsea, will take some getting used to.

— Nick Miller, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of inhabitants

Noun

Officers located two additional adult suspects, also Sacramento residents.

— Vince Basada, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2026
The 2026 midterm elections are also demonstrating how issues that begin as disputes between local governments and residents can spread across the country and become part of national political identities.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of residents

Noun

Two men had entered an apartment on North Sharon Amity Road and robbed the occupants, according to a police affidavit obtained by the Charlotte Observer.

— KC Baker, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2026
Five people were killed, all occupants of a van owned by a contract cleaning company for airlines and another vehicle, authorities previously said.

— Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of occupants

Noun

Just like today’s tentacled ocean dwellers, the Mesozoic squid ancestor likely had no problem devouring its relatives—or even members of its own species.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2026
The modular design is easy to assemble (a gift for any apartment dwellers).

— Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of dwellers

Noun

Dozens of Nepali villagers who were stranded by the deadly floods lined up for days to return home via a makeshift zip line on Friday.

— Sana Noor Haq, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026
In a moment, Vicente, who is in his early 60s, will join dozens of other villagers by the side of the main road who have gathered to watch stage nine of the Vuelta a España pass through.

— Chris Marshall-Bell, New York Times, 3 Sep. 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

Some 589 foreign nationals are among the missing, the NDRRMA said in their update.

— Kosh Raj Koirala, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2026
The South Korean nationals are among a growing number of people who have been abducted in recent months as for-ransom kidnappings remain a persistent threat as armed groups continue to expand their terriroties.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 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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