TOWNSHIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does township mean? 

• TOWNSHIP (noun)
  The noun TOWNSHIP has 1 sense:

1. an administrative division of a county

  Familiarity information: TOWNSHIP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOWNSHIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An administrative division of a county

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

town; township

Context example:

the town is responsible for snow removal

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

administrative district; administrative division; territorial division (a district defined for administrative purposes)

Derivation:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

town (an administrative division of a county)

 Context examples 

In our own township of Hordle two have lost their eyes and one his skin for this very thing.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Those two beautiful sonnets that you transmuted into the cow that was accounted the worst milker in the township.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“The ancient chain of the township of Lepe! This is but a sorry jest, Sir Nigel.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Alas! it was my ill fate to slay him in a bickering which broke out in a field near the township of Tarbes.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is my custom, dearling, and hath been since I have first known thee, to proclaim by herald in such camps, townships, or fortalices as I may chance to visit, that my lady-love, being beyond compare the fairest and sweetest in Christendom, I should deem it great honor and kindly condescension if any cavalier would run three courses against me with sharpened lances, should he chance to have a lady whose claim he was willing to advance.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)