"townsman" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-townsman.wav Forms: townsmen [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English townes-man, from Old English tūnes-mann, equivalent to town + -s- + man. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|townes-man}} Middle English townes-man, {{inh|en|ang|tūnes-mann}} Old English tūnes-mann, {{affix|en|town|-s-|man}} town + -s- + man Head templates: {{en-noun|townsmen}} townsman (plural townsmen)
  1. A man who is a resident of a town, especially of one's own town. Synonyms: city dweller
    Sense id: en-townsman-en-noun-N1~-HY9v Categories (other): Entries with translation boxes Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 49 49 3
  2. A resident of a university town, as opposed to a scholar at the university; a townie. Categories (topical): Male people
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  3. Synonym of oppidan (“type of student”) Synonyms: oppidan [synonym, synonym-of]
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: townswoman Translations (male resident of a town): bashkëqytetar [masculine] (Albanian), ἀστός (astós) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), مَدِينِيّ (madīniyy) [masculine] (Arabic), гараджа́нін (haradžánin) [masculine] (Belarusian), мяшча́нін (mjaščánin) [historical, masculine] (Belarusian), гарадскі́ (haradskí) [masculine] (Belarusian), ме́скі (mjéski) [masculine] (Belarusian), kêriad [masculine] (Breton), гра́жданин (gráždanin) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 市民 (shìmín) (Chinese Mandarin), гражданинъ (graždaninŭ) [Cyrillic, masculine] (Church Slavic), měšťan [masculine] (Czech), měšťák [informal, masculine] (Czech), borger [masculine] (Danish), bymand [common-gender] (Danish), poorter [masculine] (Dutch), burger [masculine] (Dutch), stedeling [masculine] (Dutch), stadsbewoner [masculine] (Dutch), kaupunkilainen (Finnish), citadin [masculine] (French), Bürger [masculine] (German), Stadtbewohner [masculine] (German), 市民 (shimin) (alt: しみん) (Japanese), 시민 (simin) (alt: 市民) (Korean), oppidānus [masculine] (Latin), гра́ѓанин (gráǵanin) [masculine] (Macedonian), гра́ѓанец (gráǵanec) [masculine, rare] (Macedonian), bymann [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), горожанинъ (gorožaninŭ) [masculine] (Old East Slavic), mieszczanin [historical, masculine] (Polish), miastowy [masculine] (Polish), cidadão [masculine] (Portuguese), горожа́нин (gorožánin) [masculine] (Russian), городско́й жи́тель (gorodskój žítelʹ) [masculine] (Russian), меща́нин (meščánin) [historical, masculine] (Russian), городско́й (gorodskój) [masculine] (Russian), мѐштанин [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), мјѐштанин [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), mèštanin [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), mjèštanin [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), mešťan [masculine] (Slovak), meščan [masculine] (Slovene), krajan [masculine] (Slovene), fotoman (Sranan Tongo), stadsbo [common-gender] (Swedish), borgare [common-gender] (Swedish), stadsman [common-gender] (Swedish), городя́нин (horodjányn) [masculine] (Ukrainian), міща́нин (miščányn) [historical, masculine] (Ukrainian), містяни́н (mistjanýn) [masculine] (Ukrainian), міськи́й (misʹkýj) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
Disambiguation of 'male resident of a town': 51 44 5

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      "roman": "graždaninŭ",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "гражданинъ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 44 5",
      "code": "orv",
      "lang": "Old East Slavic",
      "roman": "gorožaninŭ",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "горожанинъ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 44 5",
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "historical",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mieszczanin"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 44 5",
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "miastowy"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 44 5",
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cidadão"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 44 5",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gorožánin",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "горожа́нин"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 44 5",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gorodskój žítelʹ",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "городско́й жи́тель"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 44 5",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "meščánin",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "historical",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "меща́нин"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 44 5",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gorodskój",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "городско́й"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 44 5",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "мѐштанин"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 44 5",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "мјѐштанин"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 44 5",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mèštanin"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 44 5",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mjèštanin"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 44 5",
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mešťan"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 44 5",
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "meščan"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 44 5",
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "krajan"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 44 5",
      "code": "srn",
      "lang": "Sranan Tongo",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "word": "fotoman"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 44 5",
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "stadsbo"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 44 5",
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "borgare"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 44 5",
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "stadsman"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 44 5",
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "horodjányn",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "городя́нин"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 44 5",
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "miščányn",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "historical",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "міща́нин"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 44 5",
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "mistjanýn",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "містяни́н"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "51 44 5",
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "misʹkýj",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "міськи́й"
    }
  ],
  "word": "townsman"
}
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    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with irregular plurals",
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    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Albanian translations",
    "Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
    "Terms with Arabic translations",
    "Terms with Belarusian translations",
    "Terms with Breton translations",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Danish translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Korean translations",
    "Terms with Latin translations",
    "Terms with Macedonian translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
    "Terms with Old Church Slavonic translations",
    "Terms with Old East Slavic translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
    "Terms with Slovak translations",
    "Terms with Slovene translations",
    "Terms with Sranan Tongo translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
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      "name": "inh"
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        "plural"
      ]
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          "text": "Coordinate term: country dweller"
        },
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          "ref": "1946 September and October, “Centenary of the Ipswich-Colchester Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 307:",
          "text": "Largely by reason of the persistence of John Crevallier Cobbold, a leading townsman and a member of a respected Suffolk family, the scheme was brought to fruition and by an Act dated July 19, 1844, the Eastern Union Railway came into existence.",
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          "townie"
        ]
      ]
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      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bashkëqytetar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "madīniyy",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "مَدِينِيّ"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "haradžánin",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "гараджа́нін"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "mjaščánin",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "historical",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "мяшча́нін"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "haradskí",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "гарадскі́"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "mjéski",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ме́скі"
    },
    {
      "code": "br",
      "lang": "Breton",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kêriad"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "gráždanin",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "гра́жданин"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shìmín",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "word": "市民"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "měšťan"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "měšťák"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "borger"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "bymand"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "poorter"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "burger"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "stedeling"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "stadsbewoner"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "word": "kaupunkilainen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "citadin"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Bürger"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Stadtbewohner"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "astós",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ἀστός"
    },
    {
      "alt": "しみん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shimin",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "word": "市民"
    },
    {
      "alt": "市民",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "simin",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "word": "시민"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "oppidānus"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "gráǵanin",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "гра́ѓанин"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "gráǵanec",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "гра́ѓанец"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bymann"
    },
    {
      "code": "cu",
      "lang": "Church Slavic",
      "roman": "graždaninŭ",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "гражданинъ"
    },
    {
      "code": "orv",
      "lang": "Old East Slavic",
      "roman": "gorožaninŭ",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "горожанинъ"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "historical",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mieszczanin"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "miastowy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cidadão"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gorožánin",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "горожа́нин"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gorodskój žítelʹ",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "городско́й жи́тель"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "meščánin",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "historical",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "меща́нин"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gorodskój",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "городско́й"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "мѐштанин"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "мјѐштанин"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mèštanin"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mjèštanin"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mešťan"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "meščan"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "krajan"
    },
    {
      "code": "srn",
      "lang": "Sranan Tongo",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "word": "fotoman"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "stadsbo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "borgare"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "stadsman"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "horodjányn",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "городя́нин"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "miščányn",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "historical",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "міща́нин"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "mistjanýn",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "містяни́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "misʹkýj",
      "sense": "male resident of a town",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "міськи́й"
    }
  ],
  "word": "townsman"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.