townsfolk

Noun

Meaning

The people of a town; especially, the inhabitants of a city, in distinction from country people; townspeople.

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This individual is regularly nominated not only by himself but by others as well: by the ordinary townsfolk who beg him to save their town, their world, or their galaxy because they see that he has the strength and integrity that they lack. Eric Maisel

According to the director, the mystery of who killed Laura Palmer was initially going to be in the foreground, but would recede gradually as viewers got to know the other townsfolk and the problems they were having. Source: Internet

An incident with the town’s school bus may have crystallized for her what had gone wrong — when the school bus broke down, as school buses are wont to do, the townsfolk had it sent to the White House garage to be repaired. Source: Internet

A recluse by nature, he appeared strange and bizarre to his fellow townsfolk. Source: Internet

Bampton escaped and retreated to London, but three of his clerks and several of the Brentwood townsfolk who had agreed to act as jurors were killed. Source: Internet

As time went by and the numbers of plague victims rose, people living in the villages outside London began to resent this exodus and were no longer prepared to accept townsfolk from London, with or without a certificate. Source: Internet

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