townsman
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4.8
- noun
- /ˈtaʊnzˌmæn/
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- Bourgeois means townsman, and historically, beginning well before the twelfth century, we find such people in the great urban centers of Europe; in fourteenth-century Italy, for example, they were artisans and bankers in Florence and merchants and sailors in Venice and Genoa.
- fellow townsman
Examples
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We bring you home and set you at your threshold down townsman of a Stiller town.
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The townsman was in a trance at the gun's flawless craftsmanship.
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" Ah, I knew you were a townsman.
Fiction book (2001) -
A stranger, obviously a townsman, tries to hire a boat to cross to France and you suspect nothing?
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So Comes had returned and brought with him a townsman to witness Bull's reply.
Academic text (1990) -
No townsman but a guerrilla, broken.
Fiction book (1995) -
It was as splendid a spectacle as any townsman could have hoped for.
Fiction book (2000) -
[townsman]
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Stede never settled into citizenry, but maybe he wanted to at one time—maybe he saw through his glass those houses along the bay and imagined himself ensconced, law-abiding, wived, a townsman.
Fiction book (1991) -
Every townsman gathered at the square to discuss the new policies affecting their community.
Synonyms
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1.2
A person who lives in a particular area or community
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8.6
A person who lives in a town or city rather than in the countryside
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8.9
A person who lives in a town, not a student or visitor
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4.1
A person who lives in a city and is used to city life
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3.8
A person who lives in a city rather than in the countryside
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9.9
A town or city resident in medieval times with special rights
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9.8
A person who lives in a town and seems out of place in the country
How Rural
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Townsman is simply town and man, where town means 'a place where people live' and man means 'person', so a townsman is a person who lives in a town.