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Meanings of townsman in English

Catalan
ciutadà
Spanish
ciudadano

A resident of a town or city.

ciutadà
Synonyms
Examples for "towner"
Examples for "towner"
1
It was worth being a small-towner to have a brother so splendid.
The Wrong Twin
2
Most he could ever hope after that was to be a small-towner.
The Wrong Twin
3
All that Whipple money, and she has to be just a small-towner!
The Wrong Twin
4
She gave me a look that made me feel very much an out-of-towner.
The Irish Times
5
They think that I am an out-of-towner, not one of them.
The kommandant's girl
Usage of townsman in English
1
Simplicity must go, and the townsman meet his equal in the countryman.
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 1
2
Sheridan, brother of General Philip Sheridan, my old friend and fellow townsman.
An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody)
3
But the grand ovation was reserved for our distinguished townsman, Secretary Sherman.
Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet / ...
4
They did not know of what stern stuff their fellow-townsman was made.
A Short History of Monks and Monasteries
5
Mr. Van Kleeck, a townsman, in a recent letter to Dr. R.W.
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian ...
6
Every townsman had fled long since, and would be making for Dorchester.
A King's Comrade: A Story of Old Hereford
7
Chiappino is best understood by comparison with Luitolfo, his fellow-townsman and friend.
A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)
8
Thomas Greene, a fellow-townsman of his, was already one of their number.
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. / With An ...
9
When the townsman goes to the country he says the people are savages.
The Foundations of Japan / Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 M...
10
Some audacious townsman had claimed the right of catching eels in a pond.
The Coming of the Friars
11
The Master said, The plain townsman is the bane of mind.
The Sayings of Confucius
12
The maltreatment of their townsman had kindled the spark of discontent to flame.
The Truce of God / A Tale of the Eleventh Century
13
He asked a townsman standing near him what the tumult meant.
The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance
14
He was accompanied by his friend and fellow townsman, the Rev.
The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886 / Bay St...
15
Her cousin, townsman as he was, had far more natural taste.
Mr. Hogarth's Will
16
Perhaps they found it quite as amusing as hanging their townsman.
Paddy Finn
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Translations for townsman
Catalan
ciutadà
Spanish
ciudadano
Townsman through the time
Townsman across language varieties
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