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TOWNSMAN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A resident of a town or city

Synonyms:

towner; townsman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("townsman" is a kind of...):

occupant; occupier; resident (someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "townsman"):

townee (townsman unacquainted with country life especially a slick and flashy male city dweller)

townie; towny (resident of a college town not affiliated with the college)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person from the same town as yourself

Example:

a fellow townsman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("townsman" is a kind of...):

compeer; equal; match; peer (a person who is of equal standing with another in a group)

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