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  • noun As many people as a town can hold.

Etymologies

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town +‎ -ful

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Examples

  • Each one makes a sound like a whole townful of ravens in the country I come from.

    The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

  • Each one makes a sound like a whole townful of ravens in the country I come from.

    The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

  • Each one makes a sound like a whole townful of ravens in the country I come from.

    The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

  • Soon the wee beasties come across a townful of unsuspecting humans, and hilarity ensues.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Greg Tannahill 2008

  • Soon the wee beasties come across a townful of unsuspecting humans, and hilarity ensues.

    Aliens vs Predator Requiem Greg Tannahill 2008

  • Spock must be at the end of his endurance, he thought, to admit dependence on a townful of frontier humans—to admit to the weakness of not knowing what to do.

    Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

  • Spock must be at the end of his endurance, he thought, to admit dependence on a townful of frontier humans—to admit to the weakness of not knowing what to do.

    Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

  • Trish could nearly imagine bonding to one human being, or two; never needing to guess the thoughts of a townful of people, each of them in control of a child's life.

    Beowulf's Children Niven, Larry 1995

  • Every once in a while, perhaps from a sudden heart hunger, Frank would select from a whole townful of human beings some one soul for friendship.

    Green Valley Katharine Reynolds

  • I don't want to have to divide the profits with a whole townful of people.

    Gossamer 1915 George A. Birmingham 1907

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