Meanings
- A coastal city in northern Queensland, Australia.
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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.*
1971, Lyndon Johnson, “The New Age of Regionalism”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 361 - A local government area in Queensland; in full, the City of Townsville.
- A generic hypothetical or fictional town name.
Origin
From the surname Towns + -ville. Named after Robert Towns in Queensland.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
Townsville. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Townsville
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