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TOWNSPEOPLE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The people living in a municipality smaller than a city

Example:

the whole town cheered the team

Synonyms:

town; townsfolk; townspeople

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("townspeople" 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 "townspeople"):

borough (an English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament)

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