towner

[ tou-ner ]

noun

1. a person who lives in a town or city.

Word History and Origins

Origin of towner¹

town + -er ¹

Example Sentences

In big cities, tourists visit seasonally, and the more out-of-towners there are on the platform, the greater the likelihood of encountering people from areas with low vaccination rates.

From Time

Indeed, the out-of-towners have been the worst mask violators at Capitol Hill Books, a tiny townhouse of a store packed floor-to-ceiling in books with no chance for social distancing.

From Washington Post

The parade of out-of-towners asking for free cash has thinned, Ravenscroft said, though some still show up with letters they want him to pass to the lottery winner.

From Washington Post

In this case, a couple of other out-of-towners—a birder from Mississippi and another from Nebraska—saw the species.

From Outside Online

And so the 12-year-old out-of-towner was in a position to make an aggressive bid for the longtime resident of Broad Street.

From The Daily Beast

"Purty long ride ye hed fur such a big load," remarked one towner.

From Project Gutenberg

A Dry-towner, rangy and scarred, looked out at me, and it seemed that the expression on his face was one of amazement.

From Project Gutenberg

During those days and nights on the trail I grew back slowly into the Dry-towner I once had been.

From Project Gutenberg

No Wolfan in his right mind will bargain with a Dry-towner carrying an unresolved blood-feud.

From Project Gutenberg

She pulled away and I saw again, beneath the veneer of petulant coquetry, that fierce and untamable insolence of the Dry-towner.

From Project Gutenberg