townsman
nounEtymology
From Middle English townes-man, from Old English tūnmann, tūnes mann, equivalent to town + -s- + man.
- inherited from tūnmann
- inherited from townes-man
Definitions
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.
A resident of a university town, as opposed to a scholar at the university
A resident of a university town, as opposed to a scholar at the university; a townie.
Synonym of oppidan (“type of student”).
The neighborhood
- neighbortownswoman
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for townsman. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA