[
US
/ˈtaʊnzmən/
]
[ UK /tˈaʊnzmən/ ]
[ UK /tˈaʊnzmən/ ]
NOUN
-
a person from the same town as yourself
a fellow townsman - a resident of a town or city
How To Use townsman In A Sentence
- A townsman appeared in the door as we approached, leading one of the roan Belgians out onto the road.
- Arnhem looked as if it was an uneventful townsman 's town again. DISPLACED PERSON
- The aim is to scare every townsman and townswoman out of town and reclaim what has been lost before sunrise returns.
- The rest of the village was in full attendance, for it was not every day in the week that the "tambour," the town-crier, had business enough to render his appearance, in his official capacity, necessary; as a mere townsman he was to be seen any hour of the day, as drunk as a lord, at the sign of "L'Ami Fidèle. In and out of Three Normady Inns
- Mr Loffts Letter will tell how Nats piece go on; and Isaac can tell you more, and can, if he likes, tell your townsman Reynolds that he is an impudent dog to attempt to father verses that he never wrote. Letter 120
- Yes," replied the townsman, "I am deputed by the people of St. Michel to tell you that they are good servants of the king, but that they do not mean to have any gabel, or marks on pewter or tobacco, or stamped papers, or _yreffe d'arbitrage_ (arbitration-clerk's fee). A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5
- Howe is an easterner and a city dweller, not a townsman.
- Mac McMurray capped this story by saying a townsman had a piece of petrified fence post with the drilled holes for wire with a piece of the wire attached.
- Unemployed insurance and system of safeguard of townsman lowest life coordinate each other.
- Private cars can meet the townsman's demand of more frequent egressions, larger extents of egression, and higher egression quality with the result of benefit, convenience and comfort to the townsman.