townee

chiefly British

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Recent Examples of townee As they're greeted by a sleeker and sexier group of performing townees, Melissa and Josh are confused, to say the least. Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for townee
Noun
  • Seattle's best burgers (Image credit: Getty / Kevin Schafer) As of 2024, Dick's has been serving burgers to the burghers of Seattle for 70 years.
    Neil Davey, theweek, 16 Sep. 2024
  • By Timothy O'Grady July 8, 2024 Belfast: city of riveters, inventors, linen mill girls, boxers, pamphleteers, revolutionaries, Lambeg drummers, Irish bagpipers, mission hall preachers, and mustachioed burghers with pocket watches.
    Timothy O'Grady, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2024
Noun
  • The townsmen feared his razor-sharp teeth, lightning speed, and quick temper.
    Maeve Dunigan, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Whereas most of the townsmen had a stronger right upper arm bone than the left—suggesting difficult physical labor—some men buried on the hospital grounds had symmetrical arm bones, and their skeletal remains suggested a relatively long and healthy life.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2023
Noun
  • Local villagers responded by stringing nets across the water to prevent further drownings.
    Robert Pearl, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete will be released on December 3, 2024, and will feature every item, event, and villager that was in the online version of the game — with the exception of the Sanrio collaboration items, which are sadly absent.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The story, historically told from the white pilgrim's perspective, is that colonists shared a meal with the indigenous Wampanoag people to give thanks for a successful fall harvest.
    Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Instead, the Mars that Bradbury's colonists discover is a dreamlike planet with blue skies and water, a breathable if thin atmosphere, and noble but doomed indigenous inhabitants.
    Theunis Bates, theweek, 28 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Expansion draft criticisms American sports leagues have long used expansion drafts as a means to competitive balance for their newcomers.
    Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Germann joins an ensemble that also includes the returning Neve Campbell, who stars across the franchise as final girl Sidney Prescott, as well as newcomers Isabel May and Celeste O’Connor.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 5 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The young girl's rescue is another example of migrants making dangerous journeys on boats to reach Europe, CompassCollective's Katja Tempel said.
    Charna Flam, People.com, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Advertisement Under fire for admitting record numbers of migrants, Trudeau’s government recently slashed the annual total allowed into the country.
    Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • After adopting a plan to improve water quality, locals were finally able to enjoy a swim in 2002.
    Natalie Donback, TIME, 18 Dec. 2024
  • After a violent campaign in which Buddhists killed a number of priests and destroyed churches, in 1909, locals built the church that Galipeau visited in Cizhong.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 17 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The Nisenan, like all of California’s Native peoples, were decimated by the settlers’ campaigns of violence and cultural eradication.
    Michelle Weber, Longreads, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Andrew Jackson, a firebrand advocate for farmers and western settlers, saw adherence to a gold standard as a way to avoid excessive government power.
    Kevin Coldiron, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024

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“Townee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/townee. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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