Townspeople
/ˈtaʊnzˌpipəl/ noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 plural of townsperson form-of, plural
"Quite a crowd of townspeople turned out to see the train start, and several pressmen were busily engaged in taking notes and photographs."
- 2 the people living in a municipality smaller than a city wordnet
Example
More examples"The townspeople were astonishingly naive about what the smugglers were."
Etymology
From town + -s- + people.