Noun:

नागरिक लोग, शहरवाले,

townsfolk's Usage Examples:

The townsfolk contend that the great Cervantes was a native of Alcazar; and, although this claim must be disallowed, much of the action of his masterpiece, Don Quixote, takes place in the neighbourhood.

It became a town in 1208, and during the middle ages there were many struggles between the abbots and the townsfolk.

Discouraged by this failure in the pulpit, Savonarola now devoted himself to teaching in the convent, but his zeal for the salvation of the apathetic townsfolk was soon to stir him to fresh efforts.

Many of the houses are roofless and untenanted; for, after five centuries of prosperity under Venetian or Hungarian rule, an outbreak of plague in 1456 swept away the majority of the townsfolk, and ruined the survivors.

In many parts the peasants and townsfolk, enraged by the licence of the French, hung on his flank and rear.

he gave for the support of sons and daughters of the townsfolk sesterces 04000);, for the maintenance of the library, 100,000 sesterces (800).

Formerly, when floods resulted from this obstruction, the townsfolk of Helston acquired the right of clearing a passage through it by presenting leathern purses containing three halfpence to the lord of the manor.

peasants and townsfolk, and combined with hatred of the English to develop national sentiment.

Apparently he spent a lot of time on the back of a horse, riding his range in all kinds of weather - a fact that prompted more than one comment by townsfolk that he had wasted a good college education.

St Lawrence's chapel, a chantry built under Edward I., was bought by the townsfolk at the Reformation.

Synonyms:

townspeople, town, borough, municipality,

Antonyms:

rural area,