townsman
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English townes-man, from Old English tūnes-mann, equivalent to town + -s- + man.
Noun edit
townsman (plural townsmen)
- A man who is a resident of a town, especially of one's own town.
- Synonym: city dweller
- Coordinate term: country dweller
- 1946 September and October, “Centenary of the Ipswich-Colchester Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 307:
- Largely by reason of the persistence of John Crevallier Cobbold, a leading townsman and a member of a respected Suffolk family, the scheme was brought to fruition and by an Act dated July 19, 1844, the Eastern Union Railway came into existence.
- A resident of a university town, as opposed to a scholar at the university; a townie.
Related terms edit
Translations edit
male resident of a town
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