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townspeople|ˈtaʊnzˌpiːp(ə)l|
Also 7 townes people.
[f. as prec. + people. Orig. two words; now written as one.]
People or inhabitants of a town or towns; townsmen and townswomen; townsfolk. (Usually const. as pl.)
1648Cromwell Let. 25 Nov., And without money the stubborn towns-people will not trust them for the worth of a penny. 1691in Somerset & Dorset N. & Q. June (1905) 263 Many died as also many Townes people of y⊇ same distemper. 1833Marryat P. Simple xxi, We had no parole, and but little communication with the townspeople. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. v. I. 573 The town's people repaired to the cliffs and gazed long and anxiously. 1872Bagehot Physics & Pol. iv. 132 The place was crowded and a whole townspeople looking on.
b. People inhabiting the same town; fellow-townsmen. (Usually after possessive.)
1823Examiner 761/1 They are townspeople, we believe, the native place of both being..Edinburgh. 1870Emerson Soc. & Solit. iii. 45 Not by his friends or his townspeople or his contemporaries. |