Townsman

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  • noun. A man who is a resident of a town.
  • noun. A man who is a fellow resident of one's town.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An inhabitant of a town.
  • noun. A fellow-inhabitant of a town; a fellow-citizen.
  • noun. A town officer now called a selectman.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An inhabitant of a town; one of the same town with another.
  • noun. A selectman, in New England. See Selectman.
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  • noun. a man who is a resident of a town, especially of one's own town
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a person from the same town as yourself
  • noun. a resident of a town or city
    • Word Usage
    "The Secretary of State, our honored townsman, is stabbed as he lies helpless upon a bed of pain, his sons and defenders are disabled, the Chief of all is slain, and the nation cries out in agony!"
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    rustic  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    compeer  equal  match  peer  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    authoress  breechclout  canonist  copperhead  dairyman  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Philistine  Towny  burgher  cad  cit  
    variant
    selectman  
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