Etymology
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From town + -s- + -woman, on the model of townsman.
townswoman (plural townswomen)
- A woman who is a resident of a town, especially of one's own town.
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Translations
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woman resident of a town
- Albanian: bashkëqytetare (sq) f
- Arabic: مَدِينِيَّة f (madīniyya)
- Belarusian: гараджа́нка f (haradžánka), мяшча́нка f (mjaščánka) (historical), гарадска́я f (haradskája), ме́ская f (mjéskaja)
- Bulgarian: гра́жданка f (gráždanka)
- Czech: měšťanka (cs) f, (informal) měšťačka f
- Finnish: kaupunkilainen (fi)
- French: citadine (fr) f
- German: Bürgerin (de) f, Stadtbewohnerin (de) f
- Macedonian: гра́ѓанка f (gráǵanka)
- Polish: mieszczanka (pl) f (historical), miastowa f
- Russian: горожа́нка (ru) f (gorožánka), городска́я жи́тельница f (gorodskája žítelʹnica), меща́нка (ru) m (meščánka) (historical), городска́я (ru) f (gorodskája)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: мѐшта̄нка f, мјѐшта̄нка f
- Roman: mèštānka f, mjèštānka (sh) f
- Slovak: mešťanka f
- Slovene: meščanka f
- Swedish: stadsbo (sv) c, stadsfru c, borgarfru c
- Ukrainian: городя́нка f (horodjánka), міща́нка f (miščánka) (historical), містя́нка f (mistjánka), міська́ f (misʹká)
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