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Townsman [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. An inhabitant of a place; or one of the same town with another.

2. A selectman; an officer of the town in New England, who assists in managing the affairs of the town. [ See Selectmen .]

3. The common talk of a place, or the subject of common conversation.

Townsman [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. An inhabitant of a town; one of the same town with another.

2. A selectman, in New England. See Selectman.

Inhabitant Roget’s Thesaurus §188

N. inhabitant, resident, residentiary, dweller, indweller, addressee, occupier, occupant, householder, lodger, inmate, tenant, incumbent, sojourner, locum tenens, commorant, settler, squatter, backwoodsman, colonist, islander, denizen, citizen, burgher, oppidan, cockney, cit, townsman, burgess, villager, cottager, cottier, cotter, compatriot, backsettler, boarder, hotel keeper, innkeeper, habitant, paying guest, planter, native, indigene, aborigines, autochthones, englishman, john bull, newcomer, aboriginal, american, caledonian, cambrian, canadian, canuck*, downeaster, scot, scotchman, hibernian, irishman, welshman, uncle sam, yankee, brother jonathan, garrison, crew, population, people, colony, settlement, household, mir

V. inhabit, endenizen

Adj. indigenous, native, natal, autochthonal, autochthonous, british, english, american, canadian, irish, scotch, scottish, welsh, domestic, domiciliated, domiciled, naturalized, vernacular, domesticated, domiciliary, in the occupation of, garrisoned by, occupied by