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Township

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Noun
  1. 1
    The territory of a town.

    "The train is usually crowded and half the township of Forres seems to turn out to watch it go off."

  2. 2
    an administrative division of a county wordnet
  3. 3
    A subdivision of a county. Canada, US
  4. 4
    An area set aside for nonwhite occupation. South-Africa

    "In addition, the council has completed the planning of a new Coloured township on the site of the existing African township."

  5. 5
    A nonwhite (usually subeconomic) area attached to a city. South-Africa

    "Growing up in the township of Zwide, just outside Port Elizabeth, bed for Kolisi was a pile of cushions on the living-room floor and finding enough to eat was a daily struggle. […] So, the man from the townships can certainly empathize with the pain lockdown is inflicting on the less fortunate in his country."

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  1. 6
    A small town. Australia, New-Zealand

Etymology

From Middle English towneship, townschip, tounshipe, tunscipe, from Old English tūnsċipe (“the inhabitants of a town; township”), equivalent to town + -ship.

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