Word Meanings - TOWNSPEOPLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The inhabitants of a town or city, especially in distinction from country people; townsfolk.
Related words: (words related to TOWNSPEOPLE)
- 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.