township
township
Definition
town·ship (to̵un′s̸hip)
noun
- Historical in England, a parish or division of a parish, as a unit of territory and administration
- in parts of the U.S. and Canada, a division of a county, constituting a unit of local government with administrative control of local schools, roads, etc.
- in New England, town (sense )
- a unit of territory in the U.S. land survey, generally six miles square, containing 36 mile-square sections, and sometimes, but not necessarily, coextensive with a governmental township
- in South Africa, a segregated, nonwhite area in or just outside a city
Etymology: ME tunscipe < OE, people living in a tun: see town & -ship
township
Synonyms
township
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- crofting: Most of the population live in crofting townships on the west coast.
- fortify: This demographic chance was counterbalanced by the rise of some settlements to fortified townships.
- comprise: The Union comprises 34 townships, of which 19 are in Yorkshire.
- neighbor: Ramsey Abbey thus obtained Slepe, including the neighboring townships of Woodhurst and Old Hurst, which were included in the Soke of Slepe.
- surround: However, there are plenty of options in surrounding townships as well as in Athens itself.
- contain: The sub-district bears the name of West Leigh, and contains the townships of West Leigh and Pennington.
Preposition: in
- parish: In 1835 Overton was a township in the parish of Lancaster.
Adjective modifier
- crofting: By the mid 1800s, Brae had emerged as a crofting township on the east shore of Busta Voe.
- South: Welcome to a movie premiere in a South African township.
- African: Welcome to a movie premiere in a South African township.
- picturesque: Travel from the coastal sugar fields high into the Atherton Tablelands to the picturesque township of Kuranda.
- joint: Blennerhasset village, and joint township with Kirkland, stands on the banks of the river Allen 9, seven miles S.W. of Wigton.
- medieval: Maybe spend the day in the medieval townships or get into the San Fermin atmosphere at the camp's bar.
Modifies a noun
- workhouse: A township workhouse also operated at Over Darwen, at the western end of what is now Police Street.
- parish: This will also help identify churches in nearby townships and/or parishes.
- boundary: In addition to forming the present parish boundary, Whin Beck was also the township boundary of Normanton.
- and/or: This will also help identify churches in nearby townships and/or parishes.
- school: Education in township schools has come to be considered inferior, thereby entrenching exclusion.
Noun used with modifier
- crofting: The whole intact primitive crofting township is designated an Ancient Monument.
- farming: Certainly in the 16th century Eilean Mor provided shelter to the houses and barns of a farming township.
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