Definition of "townsman" [towns•man]

• A man who is a resident of a town. (noun)
• A man who is a fellow resident of one's town. (noun)

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• "The Secretary of State, our honored townsman, is stabbed as he lies helpless upon a bed of pain, his sons and defenders are disabled, the Chief of all is slain, and the nation cries out in agony!"
• "In Killaloe, where a bishop might be seen walking about every day, the mitred dignitary of the Church, though much loved, was thought of, I fear, but lightly; whereas a Cabinet Minister coming to stay in the house of a townsman was a thing to be wondered at, to be talked about, to be afraid of, to be a fruitful source of conversation for a year to come."
• "They startled contemporaries by their radicalism, and their conduct gives the lie to our preconceived idea that a townsman is a man of peace."