"town crier" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: town criers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} town crier (plural town criers)
  1. (British, historical) A person who is employed by a town council to make public announcements in the streets Tags: British, historical Categories (topical): People Translations (town crier): глашатай (glašataj) [masculine] (Bulgarian), stadsomroeper [masculine] (Dutch), julkihuutaja (Finnish), crieur public [masculine] (French), pregoeiro [masculine] (Galician), Stadtschreier [masculine] (German), Gemeindediener [masculine] (German), Ausrufer [masculine] (German), tsaʼakmongwi (Hopi), kikiáltó (Hungarian), banditore [masculine] (Italian), гла́сник (glásnik) [masculine] (Macedonian), те́лал (télal) [archaic, masculine] (Macedonian), herold miejski [masculine] (Polish), pregoeiro (Portuguese), pregonero [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-town_crier-en-noun-QBbI86g1 Disambiguation of People: 100 0 Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 99 1 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 98 2 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 98 2 Disambiguation of 'town crier': 100 0
  2. (by extension) A gossip Tags: broadly
    Sense id: en-town_crier-en-noun-ZqX-esdt

Inflected forms

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