Meaning

An inhabitant of a town..

Definitions by Sense

1. An inhabitant of a town.
2. (now rare) A small or insignificant town; a townlet

Example Sentences

There ſhe Prudes it ſo demurely, / And ſo well diſplays her Charms, / That ſome Townling, moſt ſecurely , / She allures into her Arms.

Some perturbed spirits in that little townling are in distress at the agitation awakened and widely spreading on the Woman question. The editor of the Village News comforts them by the assurance that Mount Vernon is no more prepared for the radical measure of female suffrage than other towns.

We are annoyed perpetually with lengthened discussions as to the geography of a trumpery townling, or the arrangements of some trivial and indecisive siege.

And close at hand, too, lay St. Aubin; a mere townling; nothing to be called excitement stirring its quiet streets; the daily routine of existence repeating itself with clock-like monotony throughout the year.

Let us on this journey take any town from the cathedral city and chef-lieu, or departmental capital, to the townling of a few thousand souls,[…]

As it is not even a townlet, a townling, or half a fraction of a town, there was much rejoicing at a recent ground-breaking ceremony for a new row of Blair toilets when the district commissioner shared with us his vision for town status for Mupandawana by the year 2065.

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• townlings

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