townsfolk
townsfolk
Definition
towns·folk (to̵unz′fōk′)
plural noun
townsfolk
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- help: Whitstable's wartime shop keepers were fantastic and helped many townsfolk through such periods selling goods 'on tic ' .
- gather: The first scenes from Australia showed several hundred townsfolk gathered in the afternoon sunshine in the main street of Carnarvon.
- give: The railroad and station buildings boosted tourist trade into Richmond, also gave the ordinary townsfolk better facility to travel.
- meet: On their journey through the town, pupils meet other townsfolk, gathering objects and skills, and discovering information on daily Roman life.
Adjective modifier
- local: Following a revolt by local townsfolk in 1839 the half penny toll for pedestrians was lifted.
- ordinary: The railroad and station buildings boosted tourist trade into Richmond, also gave the ordinary townsfolk better facility to travel.
- fellow: They were anxious to make the most of all the advantages, which a railroad would bring to them, and their fellow townsfolk.
- good: Try telling that to the good townsfolk or to Ray Soames ' family.
- few: In the section entitled How to Walk Walker outlines his thesis: Few townsfolk know how to walk.
- other: On their journey through the town, pupils meet other townsfolk, gathering objects and skills, and discovering information on daily Roman life.
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