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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
townspeople
noun
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▪ For decades, townspeople thought his childhood home was a three-story rowhouse near the market square, now a porcelain shop.
▪ He established contacts with townspeople and religious leaders that would be invaluable to him in his later research.
▪ His solution worked, and the townspeople rewarded him with gold.
▪ On the afternoon of November 21st the townspeople flocked to the hill site of Tiutiunnyk's battle.
▪ The townspeople had learned the hard way that curiosity killed the cat - you stayed indoors if there was trouble.
▪ They were mostly from Hargeisa, townspeople with a reasonable standard of living.
▪ Word had been sent that he had landed, and the townspeople joined in a great welcome to him.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Townspeople

Townspeople \Towns"peo`ple\, n. The inhabitants of a town or city, especially in distinction from country people; townsfolk.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
townspeople

1640s, from genitive of town + people.

Wiktionary
townspeople

n. (plural of townsperson English)

WordNet
townspeople

n. the people living in a municipality smaller than a city; "the whole town cheered the team" [syn: town, townsfolk]

Usage examples of "townspeople".

The townspeople realized the fruit of the Norman labor and a low moan came to Wulfgar as their voices raised in anguished protest.

When, as the Roman army was besieging Corioli, and was wholly intent on the townspeople, whom they kept shut up, without any apprehension of war threatening from without, the Volscian legion, setting out from Antium, suddenly attacked them, and, at the same time the enemy sallied forth from the town, Marcius happened to be on guard.

From time to time he spotted townspeople skulking on the outskirts, returned to reclaim personal possessions or perhaps to gauge when they might expect to reinhabit their homes.

Linen parasols sprouted like pastel mushrooms from the boats, and there was a sprinkling of what were obviously townspeople on the dock, standing as we were, looking expectantly across the harbor.

I hate to relate the following, because antiabortionists will just love this story, but I discovered that the cabin had been used in the early 1900s by a veterinarian who performed abortions for the townspeople there.

But by the time Barnett concluded his business, jubilant townspeople were flocking around his car.

And a cry went up once more from the townspeople who had marched out to meet the mages, but even Cailin knew that this sound was not born of anger or defiance.

From his unique perspective at the edge of the Santarogan group identity, Dasein can see what the townspeople cannot, that Santaroga enforces conformity on its members just as the outside does.

By the time we arrived in the market enclosure, it was already crowded with townspeople as well as with Persian and Lydian troops.

He questioned the townspeople who treated him in the courteous but offhanded way that Southerners have always regarded strangers.

The building stood as Rabban had restored it, virtually untouched by the fighting although there had been looting by townspeople.

From where he stood, he could see townspeople moving into position: behind the stilts supporting the blackwood cabins six feet above the ground, behind stone chimneys, behind chicken shacks and goat pens.

Kate looked around the room at the deputies and firemen, the townspeople who had come to mean so much to her, and she knew that coming back to Gilpin County had been the smartest move of her life.

When, as the Roman army was besieging Corioli, and was wholly intent on the townspeople, whom they kept shut up, without any apprehension of war threatening from without, the Volscian legion, setting out from Antium, suddenly attacked them, and, at the same time the enemy sallied forth from the town, Marcius happened to be on guard.

Many townspeople treated the hippies in a similar fashion, looking upon them as a sort of manna from heaven, hiring them--for example--to make adobes, because the freaks learned fast and were willing--again out of middle-class guilt, and also because they were independently wealthy anyway--to labor eight or ten hours a day at what amounted to slave wages.