town-dweller

See also: town dweller and towndweller

English

Etymology

town +‎ dweller

Noun

town-dweller (plural town-dwellers)

  1. 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.
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