Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural The inhabitants or citizens of a town or city.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The inhabitants, collectively, of a town or city; townsfolk, especially in distinction from country folk or the rural population.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The inhabitants of a town or city, especially in distinction from country people; townsfolk.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
townsman andtownswoman . Thepopulation orinhabitants of avillage ,town orcity
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the people living in a municipality smaller than a city
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Examples
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Heidi's cryptic hints sometimes make me think of the unhelpful innkeepers and townspeople from the early '90s MS-DOS version of In the World Is Carmen Sandiego? who were always crappy at remembering details that didn't relate to flags.
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 5 Recap: Marie Clairvoyance Una LaMarche 2010
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A vivid portrayal of the tensions between the cultures of the hop-pickers, the gypsies and the townspeople is richly displayed through the use of dialect, history and landscapes.
Reader reviews of An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear. 2008
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Although several of the residents of Heronsdene are developed individually as characters, the townspeople are also dominated by an ominous group psychology.
An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear: Questions 2008
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The townspeople were a particularly uninteresting type — unmarried females were predominant for the most part — with school-festival horizons and souls bleak as the forbidding white architecture of the three churches.
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The army officers, aware that alienation of the townspeople was a good way to find themselves fighting alone if an invasion attempt was made, turned a blind eye to anything that did not clearly threaten Hawk Haven's border.
Through Wolfs Eyes 2001
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He called the townspeople secret Roman sympathizers and had his soldiers kill a number of them.
The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991
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Intimately associated with the life and habits of the townspeople were the coaches travelling between London, Royston and
Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston
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The townspeople were a particularly uninteresting type -- unmarried females were predominant for the most part -- with school-festival horizons and souls bleak as the forbidding white architecture of the three churches.
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Moreover this dread of the suppression of the visible protection of the policeman is essentially a sentiment of townspeople, that is, of people who are living in abnormal and artificial conditions.
The Kingdom of God Is Within You Leo Tolstoy 1869
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The townspeople are a gallery of surly grotesques living in fear of the town bully, Jørgen
SFGate: Top News Stories Walter Addiego 2010
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