townsman
/tˈaʊnzmən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.99 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A man who is a resident of a town, especially of one's own town.
noun
A resident of a university town, as opposed to a scholar at the university; a townie.
Example Sentences
- "Two independent witnesses would testify that he carried no parcel. They were townsmen of St. Abbots who had travelled down in the same carriage with him."
- "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."
Etymology
From Middle English townes-man, from Old English tūnmann, tūnes mann, equivalent to town + -s- + man.