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Word Meanings - TOWNSPEOPLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The inhabitants of a town or city, especially in distinction from country people; townsfolk.

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

 

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