Townspeople

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Townspeople \Towns"peo`ple\, n.
     The inhabitants of a town or city, especially in distinction
     from country people; townsfolk.
     [1913 Webster] Townward

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "townspeople":
     big-city man, bourgeois, burgess, burgher, city dweller, city man,
     city slicker, exurbanite, oppidan, suburbanite, townee, towner,
     townfolk, townfolks, townsman, townswoman, urbanite, villager,
     villageress