as in citizen
a person who lives in a town on a permanent basis
thousands of townsmen turned out to vote on the school budget
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Recent Examples of townsman
These were probably composed by Sebastian Lotzer, a townsman and furrier, on the basis of hundreds of complaints that different groups of peasants had been formulating for weeks beforehand.
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Literary Hub,
25 Sep. 2025
One cut scene, Good recalls, featured a townsman sacrificing himself with a homemade net bomb.
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Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
21 Aug. 2025
Every year, villagers in Brittany gathered to have their sins forgiven, dance the gavotte, and watch the young townsmen wrestle after denouncing the devil.
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Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
11 July 2025
The townsmen feared his razor-sharp teeth, lightning speed, and quick temper.
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Maeve Dunigan,
The New Yorker,
21 Nov. 2024
Mountaineers and townsmen of eastern Tennessee cam in hundreds to pack the auditorium.
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sandiegouniontribune.com,
11 July 2018
Literary Hub,
25 Sep. 2025
One cut scene, Good recalls, featured a townsman sacrificing himself with a homemade net bomb.
—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
21 Aug. 2025
Every year, villagers in Brittany gathered to have their sins forgiven, dance the gavotte, and watch the young townsmen wrestle after denouncing the devil.
—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
11 July 2025
The townsmen feared his razor-sharp teeth, lightning speed, and quick temper.
—
Maeve Dunigan,
The New Yorker,
21 Nov. 2024
Mountaineers and townsmen of eastern Tennessee cam in hundreds to pack the auditorium.
—
sandiegouniontribune.com,
11 July 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for townsman
Noun
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Kaskaskia’s dwindling number of citizens moved inland, to the center of the island.
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To the extent that their fellow-citizens refer to them at all, our government functionaries are perceived not as active agents of change but as inert, self-protecting obstructions.
Noun
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There were ten of us, with several large sacks of nonperishable items—canned fish, soap, bottled water—along with more than six hundred arepas that the villagers had cooked the night before.
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The 56-year-old was found guilty last year of inciting social unrest after meeting with villagers displaced by government construction projects, in what was widely seen as one of many legal moves taken by the government of Prime Minister Hun Manet to silence critics.
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“Townsman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/townsman. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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