[
US
/ˈtaʊnzˌfoʊk/
]
[ UK /tˈaʊnsfəʊk/ ]
[ UK /tˈaʊnsfəʊk/ ]
NOUN
-
the people living in a municipality smaller than a city
the whole town cheered the team
How To Use townsfolk In A Sentence
- Most afternoons I manage to bestir myself, and walk the plank to buy my bread and butter under the stares of the townsfolk. 52449_CLARA
- Traders were bringing in crates of imported goods from across the seas while fishmongers and townsfolk sold their own homemade wares in shops and stalls.
- The moucher sells the nests and eggs of small birds to townsfolk who cannot themselves wander among the fields, but who love to see something that reminds them of the green meadows. The Amateur Poacher
- Not a few of the townsfolk, or their ancestors, more likely, have gone so far as to plant offshoots of the fruit-bearing specimens in their own gardens.
- One of the assassins was traced to the village of Lidice which was to pay a terrible price for having one of its townsfolk involved in this killing.
- Like puppets were the townsfolk led in that show they call a raree; Rookwood
- Mayor Gordon Jefferies urged townsfolk to help catch the tagger.
- Moreover, there is the air far fresher [18] and there at this season is more plenty of that which behoveth unto life and less is the sum of annoys, for that, albeit the husbandmen die there, even as do the townsfolk here, the displeasance is there the less, insomuch as houses and inhabitants are rarer than in the city. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
- Many townsfolk simply will not talk about that day. Times, Sunday Times
- The townsfolk deserve better guidance from its leaders.