townswomen

noun

plural of townswoman
as in inhabitants

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  1. inhabitants
  2. residents
  3. occupants
  4. dwellers
  5. villagers
  6. burghers
  7. nationals
  8. habitants
Noun
  • More than 90 percent of Gaza’s inhabitants are internally displaced.
    — KHALED ELGINDY, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Well… The inhabitants of Étretat [where the series was partly filmed] hate us a little bit.
    — Baptiste Mandrillon, Time, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of inhabitants
Noun
  • DeSantis also warned residents far outside the cone to watch for tornadoes, which can spawn before the core of Isaias moves ashore.
    — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Older residents here repeat a mantra that the country has been through worse, notably when Iraq launched Scud missiles in 1991 during the first Gulf War.
    — Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of residents
Noun
  • The researchers propose that this variability in brightness is caused by the rapid evolution of fresh debris through further impacts and changes in the orbits of the system's occupants.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 6 Oct. 2026
  • The four-count lawsuit alleges that High Meadow was negligent and reckless in allowing more than 150 students into a pool that had a maximum capacity of 105 occupants.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of occupants
Noun
  • The service As elsewhere in Bahia, service is warm and friendly—albeit not quite as fast and efficient as city-dwellers may expect.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Modern farmhouse dwellers and cottagecore fanatics, take note.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of dwellers
Noun
  • Sea turtles now nest on the secluded sandy beach that’s for all intents and purposes private, save for villagers occasionally visiting the small oceanfront temple for ceremonies.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The villagers were allowed to return home late Monday afternoon, though a cordon remained around the three vehicles, police said.
    — ALASTAIR GRANT, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of villagers
Noun
  • Like the yeoman boys are out in the barn, half-naked, working out, buffing up and wearing animal heads and preparing for some kind of an inchoate battle with the burghers.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
  • These works, painted by artists such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Ferdinand Bol, and Bartholomeus van der Helst, depict the powerful merchant-burghers who shaped the political and social fabric of Golden Age Amsterdam.
    — Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Definition of burghers
Noun
  • In the eastern coastal city of Durban, where looting of shops owned by foreign nationals was reported by the state broadcaster, SABC, riot police were deployed to the city center.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Both men are Cuban nationals with lawful permanent residences in the United States, according to their complaints.
    — David Goodhue October 7, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of nationals
Noun
  • Accordingly, the First Continental Congress wrote to Quebec’s habitants – residents of French origin – to invite them to join their new nationalist project.
    — Sarah M.S. Pearsall, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
  • One of those new habitants, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced last week, was Lily Pond in Long Island.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
Definition of habitants
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“Townswomen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/townswomen. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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