townsperson

From town +‎ -s- +‎ person.

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townsperson (plural townspersons or townspeople)

1. An inhabitant of a town.
   • 2023 February 1, Scottie Andrew, “The bizarre history of Groundhog Day”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 18 July 2024:

     Many sources claim that the original Groundhog Day took place in 1887, when residents of Punxsutawney set out to Gobbler’s Knob, known as Phil’s “official” home, but the first piece of evidence Yoder found of townspeople trusting a groundhog for the weather, a diary entry, was dated 1840.

• villager

• townsfolk

• urbanite