townsfolk
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of townsfolk
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But the townsfolk are fresh out of ideas of how to stop the disaster pressing down on them, save for one that Tom and Wyck, now allies against this unseen wickedness, plot together.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
In Odessa, today a part of Ukraine, the townsfolk sympathize with the mutineers, and pay homage to the one dead member of the Potemkin’s crew, a symbol of injustice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
After the thirtieth consecutive month without rain, the townsfolk of San Francisco de Conchos in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua gather to plead for divine intervention.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2025
As the film trudges from his hospice bed to his youth, we’ll come to see that the doomed townsfolk have the same faces and mannerisms of people Chuck knew as a child.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025
Once he was done talking and the townsfolk had fed him, the dwarfs approached.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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