"cityman" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: citymen [plural]
Etymology: From city + -man. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|city|man}} city + -man Head templates: {{en-noun|citymen}} cityman (plural citymen)
  1. A man from a city.
    Sense id: en-cityman-en-noun-EoStKI9b Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -man

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1855 July 23, E., “Sketches of the Emperor and Empress at Guildhall and the Opera-House”, in The Age, number 237, Melbourne, Vic., page 7, column 6",
          "text": "He wants the frankness (now) of manner which alone could carry a man in his position through an hour’s dejeunering with squab citymen who had no notion of what it would be proper to say to him.",
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          "ref": "1967, Poul Anderson, “Outpost of Empire”, in The Long Night, London, Sydney, N.S.W.: Sphere Books Limited, published 1985, page 101",
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          "ref": "1975, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “‘. . . for a single yesterday’”, in Robert Silverberg, Roger Elwood, editors, Epoch, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Publishing Corporation, page 246",
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          "ref": "1987, Sarah Baylis, Utrillo’s Mother, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, published 1989, page 74",
          "text": "We were completely free of any sense of peril, though the streets were full of citymen drawn by the sweet scent of prostitutes.",
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          "ref": "2003, Ruán O’Donnell, Robert Emmet and the Rebellion of 1798, Dublin, Portland, Ore.: Irish Academic Press, page 103",
          "text": "A twenty-four man ‘committee’ rounded up at Summerhill was strongly suspected of liaising with the mountain bands at Whelp Rock and it was common knowledge that guides known as ‘express boys’ were bringing groups of citymen into the hills.",
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