town crier

1. 1.

   (formerly) an official who made public announcements

   Synonymscrier

   Broaderannouncer

Questions about town crier

What does town crier mean?

town crier means "(formerly) an official who made public announcements".

What is another word for town crier?

Close synonyms include crier. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is town crier a common word?

town crier is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.