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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

town-dweller en · NOUN

Etymology

From town + dweller.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of town dweller.
    • Victory is the life of the soul: the soul is not the town-dweller. But the gates of victory are open to the town-dweller also. 2021, Acharya Mahapragya, March to Victory, page 16:
    • The specter of fire has ever haunted the town-dweller. 2013, Carl Bridenbaugh, Cities in the Wilderness: The First Century of Urban Life in America 1625-1742:
    • The burgher or bourgeois is, by definition, a town-dweller. 2016, Ellen Meiksins Wood, The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View:

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town-dwellers Number=Plur lexicographic