townshipnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈtaʊn.ʃɪp/us/ˈtaʊn.ʃɪp/a South African town where only black people lived during apartheid:
the township of Soweto
poverty and deprivation in the townships
township music
in the US and Canada, a unit of local government consisting of a town and the area surrounding it:
the township of Dulce, New Mexico
Madison Township, Ohio
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Towns & regions: named regions of countries
- Aberdeen City
- Aberdeenshire
- AK
- AL
- Alderney
- English Canadian
- Fife
- FL
- Flintshire
- Florida
- NC
- nd
- New England
- New Englander
- New Hampshire
- the Middle West
- the Midlands
- the Midwest
- the Sunbelt
- the West Coast
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