Townsville
English
Etymology
From the surname Towns + -ville. Named after Robert Towns in Queensland.
Proper noun
Townsville
- A coastal city in northern Queensland, Australia.
- 1971, Johnson, Lyndon, “The New Age of Regionalism”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, LCCN 74-102146, OCLC 1067880747, page 361:
- On the morning of October 23 we stopped at Townsville in northern Australia for fuel. Lady Bird and I attended services at the Cathedral Church of St. James. Then we visited with the mayor and the townspeople. Thoughts of bygone days filled my mind as I passed through the streets of Townsville, but the people were as warm and wonderful as they had been during my stay there a quarter of a century before.*
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- An unincorporatedcommunity in Vance County, North Carolina, United States.
- A generic hypothetical or fictional town name.