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townsman en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From Middle English townes-man, from Old English tūnmann, tūnes mann, equivalent to town + -s- + man.

Meanings

1. A man who is a resident of a town, especially of one's own town.
   • Two independent witnesses would testify that he carried no parcel. They were townsmen of St. Abbots who had travelled down in the same carriage with him. 1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:
   • Largely by reason of the persistence of John Crevallier Cobbold, a leading townsman and a member of a respected Suffolk family, the scheme was brought to fruition and by an Act dated July 19, 1844, the Eastern Union Railway came into existence. 1946 September and October, “Centenary of the Ipswich-Colchester Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 307:
2. A resident of a university town, as opposed to a scholar at the university; a townie.
3. Synonym of oppidan (“type of student”).

Forms

Coordinates

country dweller

Relateds

townswoman

Synonyms

oppidan · city dweller

Translations (57)

mk гра́ѓанец (male resident of a town) · nl burger (male resident of a town) · sh мѐштанин (male resident of a town) · lt miestietis (male resident of a town) · de Stadtbewohner (male resident of a town) · cmn 市民 (male resident of a town) · sk mešťan (male resident of a town) · ru городско́й жи́тель (male resident of a town) · cs měšťák (male resident of a town) · cu гражданинъ (male resident of a town) · be мяшча́нін (male resident of a town) · cs měšťan (male resident of a town) · srn fotoman (male resident of a town) · ru мещани́н (male resident of a town) · nl poorter (male resident of a town) · la oppidānus (male resident of a town) · pl miastowa (male resident of a town) · orv горожанинъ (male resident of a town) · fi kaupunkilainen (male resident of a town) · br kêriad (male resident of a town) · mk гра́ѓанин (male resident of a town) · bg гра́жданин (male resident of a town) · da borger (male resident of a town) · nl stedeling (male resident of a town) · ko 시민 (male resident of a town) · pl mieszczanka (male resident of a town) · sh mèštanin (male resident of a town) · uk міща́нин (male resident of a town) · sv stadsman (male resident of a town) · nl stadsbewoner (male resident of a town) · uk міськи́й (male resident of a town) · es pueblerino (male resident of a town) · sh mjèštanin (male resident of a town) · ar مَدِينِيّ (male resident of a town) · sv stadsbo (male resident of a town) · es pueblero (male resident of a town) · nb bymann (male resident of a town) · uk городя́нин (male resident of a town) · pl miastowy (male resident of a town) · be ме́скі (male resident of a town) · fr citadin (male resident of a town) · grc ἀστός (male resident of a town) · ja 市民 (male resident of a town) · pt cidadão (male resident of a town) · be гарадскі́ (male resident of a town) · sl meščan (male resident of a town) · be гараджа́нін (male resident of a town) · da bymand (male resident of a town) · sh мјѐштанин (male resident of a town) · uk містяни́н (male resident of a town) · ru городско́й (male resident of a town) · ru горожа́нин (male resident of a town) · sv borgare (male resident of a town) · sl krajan (male resident of a town) · pl mieszczanin (male resident of a town) · sq bashkëqytetar (male resident of a town) · de Bürger (male resident of a town)