townsman

From Middle English townes-man, from Old English tūnes-mann, equivalent to town +‎ -s- +‎ man.

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townsman (plural townsmen)

1. A man who is a resident of a town, especially of one's own town.

   Synonym: city dweller

   Coordinate term: country dweller

   • 1946 September and October, “Centenary of the Ipswich-Colchester Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 307:

     Largely by reason of the persistence of John Crevallier Cobbold, a leading townsman and a member of a respected Suffolk family, the scheme was brought to fruition and by an Act dated July 19, 1844, the Eastern Union Railway came into existence.

2. A resident of a university town, as opposed to a scholar at the university; a townie.
3. Synonym of oppidan (“type of student”).

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