Townspeople
['taʊnzpiːp(ə)l] or ['taʊnz'pipl]
Examples
- The townspeople who, in their passing and repassing, saw her there, regarded her as the Bank Dragon keeping watch over the treasures of the mine. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I mean in knowledge and skill; not in social status, for our medical men are most of them connected with respectable townspeople here. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They must be townspeople,' said the magistrate. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I found the watchman who had discovered him, together with the local police chief and several townspeople, assembled in his little study. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
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