TOWNSFOLK

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 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)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The people living in a municipality smaller than a city

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

town; townsfolk; townspeople

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)

 Context examples 

Amid the knot of noisy and gesticulating townsfolk, many small parties of mounted knights and squires threaded their way towards the prince's quarters, where the huge iron-clamped doors were thrown back to show that he held audience within.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Christchurch townsfolk stood huddled about the Bridge of Avon, the women pulling tight their shawls and the men swathing themselves in their gaberdines, while down the winding path from the castle came the van of the little army, their feet clanging on the hard, frozen road.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)