TOWNSFOLK
Dictionary entry overview: What does townsfolk mean? • TOWNSFOLK (noun)
The noun TOWNSFOLK has 1 sense:
1. the people living in a municipality smaller than a city
Familiarity information: TOWNSFOLK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• TOWNSFOLK (noun)
Meaning:
The people living in a municipality smaller than a city
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
townsfolk; townspeople; town
Context example:
the whole town cheered the team
Hypernyms ("townsfolk" is a kind of...):
municipality (people living in a town or city having local self-government)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "townsfolk"):
borough (an English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament)
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