town-dweller
See also: town dweller and towndweller
English
Etymology
town + dweller
Noun
town-dweller (plural town-dwellers)
- Alternative spelling of town dweller.
- 2013, Carl Bridenbaugh, Cities in the Wilderness: The First Century of Urban Life in America 1625-1742:
- The specter of fire has ever haunted the town-dweller.
- 2016, Ellen Meiksins Wood, The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View:
- The burgher or bourgeois is, by definition, a town-dweller.
- 2021, Acharya Mahapragya, March to Victory, page 16:
- Victory is the life of the soul: the soul is not the town-dweller.
But the gates of victory are open to the town-dweller also.