Definition of "townsman"

townsman

noun
plural townsmen
1. A man who is a resident of a town, especially of one's own town.
  Quotations
  Largely by reason of the persistence of John Crevallier Cobbold, a leading townsman and a member of a respected Suffolk family, the scheme was brought to fruition and by an Act dated July 19, 1844, the Eastern Union Railway came into existence.
  1946 September and October, “Centenary of the Ipswich-Colchester Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 307
2. A resident of a university town, as opposed to a scholar at the university; a townie.