Definitions of townsfolk
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the people living in a municipality smaller than a city
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synonyms:
town, townspeople
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types:
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borough
an English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament
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burgh
a borough in Scotland
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pocket borough
a sparsely populated borough in which all or most of the land is owned by a single family
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rotten borough
an English parliamentary constituency with few electors
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type of:
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municipality
people living in a town or city having local self-government
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