Townsman
noun
noun ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 a male resident of a town or city wordnet
- 3 A resident of a university town, as opposed to a scholar at the university; a townie.
- 4 a male person from the same town as yourself wordnet
- 5 Synonym of oppidan (“type of student”).
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From Middle English townes-man, from Old English tūnmann, tūnes mann, equivalent to town + -s- + man.
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