TOWNSMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does townsman mean? 

• TOWNSMAN (noun)
  The noun TOWNSMAN has 2 senses:

1. a person from the same town as yourself

2. a resident of a town or city

  Familiarity information: TOWNSMAN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOWNSMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person from the same town as yourself

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

a fellow townsman

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

compeer; equal; match; peer (a person who is of equal standing with another in a group)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A resident of a town or city

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

towner; townsman

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

occupant; occupier; resident (someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "townsman"):

townee (townsman unacquainted with country life especially a slick and flashy male city dweller)

townie; towny (resident of a college town not affiliated with the college)

 Context examples 

He had met a townsman, a couple of years before, in some sailor boarding-house in Chile, so that he knew his mother to be still alive.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Far be it from us, in the present comparatively imperfect state of the resources of our establishment, to endeavour to follow our distinguished townsman through the smoothly-flowing periods of his polished and highly-ornate address!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mr. Peggotty pointed to a certain paragraph in the newspaper, where I read aloud as follows, from the Port Middlebay Times: The public dinner to our distinguished fellow-colonist and townsman, WILKINS MICAWBER, ESQUIRE, Port Middlebay District Magistrate, came off yesterday in the large room of the Hotel, which was crowded to suffocation.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)