Townsman

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A man who is a resident of a town, especially of one's own town.

    "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."

  2. 2
    a male resident of a town or city wordnet
  3. 3
    A resident of a university town, as opposed to a scholar at the university; a townie.
  4. 4
    a male person from the same town as yourself wordnet
  5. 5
    Synonym of oppidan (“type of student”).

Etymology

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

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