Word Meanings - TOWNSFOLK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The people of a town; especially, the inhabitants of a city, in distinction from country people; townspeople.

Related words: (words related to TOWNSFOLK)

• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• PEOPLE
  1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx.
• COUNTRY SEAT
  A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
• COUNTRY CLUB
  A club usually located in the suburbs or vicinity of a city or town and devoted mainly to outdoor sports.
• DISTINCTION
  1. A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division. The distinction of tragedy into acts was not known. Dryden. 2. The act of distinguishing or denoting the differences between objects, or the qualities by which one is known from
• COUNTRYSIDE
  A particular rural district; a country neighborhood. W. Black. Blackmore.
• PEOPLED
  Stocked with, or as with, people; inhabited. "The peopled air." Gray.
• COUNTRY BANK
  A national bank not in a reserve city.
• PEOPLE'S PARTY
  A party formed in 1891, advocating in an increase of the currency, public ownership and operation of railroads, telegraphs, etc., an income tax, limitation in ownership of land, etc.
• ESPECIALLY
  In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
• PEOPLER
  A settler; an inhabitant. "Peoplers of the peaceful glen." J. S. Blackie.
• COUNTRYMAN
  1. An inhabitant or native of a region. Shak. 2. One born in the same country with another; a compatriot; -- used with a possessive pronoun. In perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen. 2 Cor. xi. 26. 3. One who
• COUNTRYWOMAN
  A woman born, or dwelling, in the country, as opposed to the city; a woman born or dwelling in the same country with another native or inhabitant. Shak.
• TOWNSPEOPLE
  The inhabitants of a town or city, especially in distinction from country people; townsfolk.
• COUNTRY-BASE
  See BASE
• PEOPLELESS
  Destitute of people. Poe.
• PEOPLE'S BANK
  A form of coöperative bank, such as those of Germany; -- a term loosely used for various forms of coöperative financial institutions.
• COUNTRY COUSIN
  A relative from the country visiting the city and unfamiliar with city manners and sights.
• COUNTRY
  The rock through which a vein runs. Conclusion to the country. See under Conclusion. -- To put, or throw, one's self upon the country, to appeal to one's constituents; to stand trial before a jury. (more info) contrata, fr. L. contra over against,
• INDISTINCTION
  Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being
• TRADESPEOPLE
  People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.
• IMPEOPLE
  To people; to give a population to. Thou hast helped to impeople hell. Beaumont.
• DISPEOPLE
  To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate. Leave the land dispeopled and desolate. Sir T. More. A certain island long before dispeopled . . . by sea rivers. Milton.
• DEPEOPLE
  To depopulate.
• REPEOPLE
  To people anew.
• CONTRADISTINCTION
  Distinction by contrast. That there are such things as sins of infirmity in contradistinction to those of presumption is not to be questioned. South.
• UPCOUNTRY
  In an upcountry direction; as, to live upcountry.
• UNDERPEOPLED
  Not fully peopled.