towndweller

plural towndwellers

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of town dweller.

   Seen from one particular urban area a 'permanent towndweller' may be a transient towndweller and thus little different than the man who commutes daily between town and village.

   2019, Riall W. Nolan, Bassari Migrations: The Quiet Revolution

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   The urban Arab living in Jaffa is relatively less likely than the Arab villager to develop friendly contacts outside the family circle. Villagers tend to spend time with neighbours and friends more than towndwellers whatever their level of education. On the other hand, citydwellers spend more time at the cinema.

   1968, Alexander Berler, Urbanization and Communication: Communication Systems and Their Impact on Socio-cultural Urbanization in Israel, volumes 5-14

   Moreover, just as some literate laymen were to be found at the secular court, so is the same increasingly true of towndwellers, first as scribal transactions move from Latin to the vernacular,²⁶⁰ then as merchants, perhaps still illiterate, see the advantages of schooling for their songs.²⁶¹ Like the princely courts towndwellers depend on clerical litterati and also see the point of acquiring literacy for themselves.

   1994, Dennis Howard Green, Medieval Listening and Reading: The Primary Reception of German Literature 800-1300, page 291