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单词 town man
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town mann.

Brit. /ˈtaʊn man/, U.S. /ˈtaʊn ˌmæn/
Inflections: Plural town men.
Forms: see town n. and man n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: town n., man n.1
Etymology: < town n. + man n.1 Compare townsman n. With sense 2 compare town folk n., and also countryman n. and city man n. at city n. Compounds 2.Also attested in the field name Tunmanesmedwe , Hasketon, Suffolk (1478), apparently in sense 1.
1. A tenant of a manor or estate (cf. town n. 1b); a villein; = townsman n. 1. Obsolete.In quot. OE1: a man from one's own or the same estate; cf. townsman n. 2b.
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society > authority > subjection > service > feudal service > serfdom > [noun] > serf
town manOE
townsmanOE
churl?c1225
carla1300
villeina1325
peasant1550
serf1611
helot1823
robotnik1945
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xx. 196 Furseus oncneow sona ða sawle, se wæs his tunman ær on life.
OE Ælfric Gloss. (St. John's Oxf.) 318 Uillanus, tunmann [c1225 Worcester tunmon].
lOE Laws: Instituta Cnuti (Rochester) i. xiic. 197 De terra uillanorum, id est tunmannes [OE Laws of Edgar: Nero A.i of geneatlande].
?c1300 (?c1185) Pseudo-Cnut De Foresta iv, in F. Liebermann Gesetze der Angelsachsen (1903) I. 621 Sub horum [ealdermen] iterum quolibet sint duo minutorum hominum, quos tunman [so Stowe (c1575)] Angli dicunt.
a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 204 (MED) iij acres liyng in longefurlange vttermost toward the lond of the towne men.
a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 630 Uillicus, towneman.
2. A person (esp. a man) who lives or was born in a (particular) town or city; a town dweller; a townsman.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun]
borough-manc1000
city mana1400
townsman1433
town manc1475
town dweller1484
oppidan?1548
burgher?1555
townsfolk1562
townsfolk1592
townswoman1612
town liver1620
town folk1679
citess1685
citizeness1754
citizette1798
townie1825
urban1835
townskip1837
townsperson1840
urbanite1892
burgheress1901
c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) ii. l. 41 Trouthe to telle, as toune-men said, For on þat ȝe merkyd ȝe myssed ten schore.
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 523 Thair is mony toun man, to tuggill is tull teuch.
c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 300 He promittit in hechting to caus the toun men doe or die.
1620 G. Markham Farwell to Husbandry xiv. 107 The good towne man, and the village man.
1750 Biographia Britannica III. 1513 They put him on a poor yeoman-beadle's gown, thread-bare, and a town-man's cap.
1784 M. P. Andrews Reparation ii. ii. 27 Oh, a town man—a perfect town man—don't mind him—a mere hypocrite.
1873 T. Hardy Pair of Blue Eyes I. viii. 165 To think you, the London visitor, the town man, should have been born here, and have known this village so many years before I did.
1896 N. Munro Lost Pibroch 85 A townman would think the world slept, so great was the booming of quietness.
1921 Punch 2 Feb. 86/1 At Oxford Circus I have known What townmen call the ‘stentorphone’.
1954 J. Herbst New Green World iii. 63 The complexity of the wilderness; sterner, savager than any town man could know.
1999 C. E. Kelly In New Eng. Fashion ix. 245 Sautherea offered her heart to a town man, a college man.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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