townsman

Other forms of townsman

plural

townsmans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about townsman

What does townsman mean?

townsman means "a person from the same town as yourself". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in townsman?

townsman has 2 syllables: town-sman. The stress falls on "town". In IPA it is /ˈtaʊnzmən/.

What is another word for townsman?

Close synonyms include towner. 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 townsman a common word?

townsman 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.