Definitions

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  • noun The inhabitants of a town or city, especially in distinction from country people.

Etymologies

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town +‎ people

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Examples

  • “Charlottesville: Where students, tourists, and townpeople annoy each other” colten

    Slogan Named #2 at cvillenews.com 2005

  • One day, she is on a walk and meets Howl who is an eccentric wizard that the townpeople make fun of, and who seems to be trying to pick her up.

    Howl's Moving Castle Display Name not set 2005

  • All the townpeople were gathered at the north end of town, around and among fifteen big covered wagons drawn in a wide circle.

    The Burning City Larry Niven 2000

  • It was crowded soon after we got in, with Cowalside fishermen and townpeople all the one way or the other -- for or against the poor lads in bilboes, who sat, simple-looking enough, between the town officers, a pair of old _bodachs_ in long scarlet coats and carrying _tuaghs_, Lochaber axes, or halberds that never smelt blood since they came from the smith.

    John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

  • With the townpeople he used the tactics of knowing all their names, especially the old folks ', and for this purpose he carried a little note-book.

    Caesar or Nothing P��o Baroja 1914

  • He made a good bargain too; for the townpeople were grieved at losing their trees, and to quiet them he promised to give £200 to help build a market-house, but he never did it, and kept the cash.

    Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

  • It is also a base for entertaining the townpeople on weekends.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows joecely 2010

  • There are a lot more funny townpeople to talk to, for one thing.

    Home Theater Forum 2009

  • There are a lot more funny townpeople to talk to, for one thing.

    Home Theater Forum 2009

  • "All right!" returned Phillis, cheerfully: "one must creep before one runs, and, until the gentry employ us, we ought to think ourselves fortunate to work for the townpeople.

    Not Like Other Girls Rosa Nouchette Carey 1874

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