Sentence examples for townsman from inspiring English sources
The word "townsman" is correct and commonly used in written English
It refers to a male resident or citizen of a town. Example: The townsman proudly represented his community at the town hall meeting.
noun
A man who is a resident of a town, especially of one's own town
Chōnin, (Japanese: "townsman"), class of townsmen that emerged in Japan during the early years of the Tokugawa period (1603 1867) and became an influential and prosperous sector of society.
Prior to the Chinese annexation of Tibet in 1959, social classes among the Tibetans could be defined in terms of opposition: cleric versus lay, noble versus peasant, merchant versus labourer, agriculturalist versus nomad, and trader versus townsman.
Parmenides, an Italiote Greek (Eleatic) philosopher (6th 5th century bc) and Zeno, his fellow townsman and disciple, held that change is logically inconceivable and that logic is a surer indicator of reality than experience; thus, despite appearances, reality is unitary and motionless.
Court nobles and samurai lords had always been able to take mistresses in any number they wished; now the commoner and townsman could, with his new wealth, purchase the favour of a newly risen class of women whose role was to cater to their desires.
"Burgers are our token food!" laughs a Danish friend, giddy like a post-Cold War townsman celebrating the arrival of McDonald's.
He's always been much better suited to disappearing into character roles – his alcoholic Chaucer in A Knight's Tale, his townsman in Dogville, even his self-flagellating monk in The Da Vinci Code.
"We owe the sole eyewitness account of Schulz's murder in the ghetto of Drohobycz on November 19 , 1942 to a fellow-townsman, Izydor Friedman, who survived this particular butchery," Jerzy Ficowski writes, in his book "Letters and Drawings of Bruno Schulz," which appeared in English in 1988.
Although Mansouri's pictures have the authority and detail of anthropological documents, they were taken not by an outside observer but by a fellow-townsman — someone who understood how to negotiate between formal and casual encounters in a country where most women did not appear unveiled to anyone but their families.
The soldiers later burnt the village to ash, killing many of its 7,000 inhabitants and forcing the rest to flee.In the town of Mukjar, also in West Darfur, a witness said she saw her uncle in a makeshift prison after he had been rounded up with other townsmen by the janjaweed and members of the Sudanese armed forces.
RENAUD GILLET, a French industrialist now in his 80s, was born in Lyons, and like many of his townsmen, is a rather secretive man.
In Castile, after the failed revolt of the townsmen known as comuneros (1520 21), the hidalgos (lower nobility) were the only surviving force in the Cortes, and even they ceased to exercise much real power.
