townsmen in English

noun
1
a man living in a particular town or city.
Old man, the orchard keeper you work for is no townsman .

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1. In this hostile environment, there were few opportunities for townsmen to accumulate capital.

2. Synonyms for Burgesses include citizens, burghers, denizens, inhabitants, residents, townsmen, dwellers, freemen, householders and locals

3. The townsmen developed no organizational bases comparable to those of Western cities, no craft guilds or town councils.

4. This made him extremely unpopular with his fellow townsmen because the pilgrimages to the Kaaba were the chief source of such prosperity as Mecca enjoyed.

5. THE MILITARY JOURNALS OF TWO PRIVATE SOLDIERS, 1758-1775 ABRAHAM TOMLINSON There was no trouble whatever in Billeting the men—the townsmen were quarrelling as to who should have them

6. During this legateship, when he was walking along preceded by the fasces , one of his fellow-townsmen, a man of Lepcis and a plebeian, embraced him as an old comrade.

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8. ‘This placed an onerous tax burden on townsmen (taxation had been extended beyond Burgesses to resident non-Burgesses).’ ‘In March 1340 he travelled to London on community business, to show proof to the city authorities that Lynn Burgesses were exempt from murage exactions there.’