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TOWNSFOLK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The people living in a municipality smaller than a city
Example:
the whole town cheered the team
Synonyms:
town; townsfolk; townspeople
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("townsfolk" is a kind of...):
municipality (people living in a town or city having local self-government)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "townsfolk"):
borough (an English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament)
