town·ship

(toun′shĭp′)

n. Abbr. Twp. or Tp. or T

1. A subdivision of a county in most northeast and Midwest US states, having the status of a unit of local government with varying governmental powers.

2. A public land surveying unit of 36 sections or 36 square miles.

3. An ancient administrative division of a large parish in England.

4. A suburb or city in South Africa formerly designated by the government as a predominantly black residential area.

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township

(ˈtaʊnʃɪp)

1. (Human Geography) a small town

2. (Human Geography) (in the Scottish Highlands and islands) a small crofting community

3. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in the US and Canada) a territorial area, esp a subdivision of a county: often organized as a unit of local government

4. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (formerly, in South Africa) a planned urban settlement of Black Africans or Coloured people. Compare location⁴

5. (Historical Terms) English history

a. any of the local districts of a large parish, each division containing a village or small town

b. the particular manor or parish itself as a territorial division

c. the inhabitants of a township collectively

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town•ship

(ˈtaʊn ʃɪp)

n.

1. a unit of local government, usu. a subdivision of a county, found in most midwestern and northeastern states of the U.S. and in most Canadian provinces.

2. (in U.S. surveys of public land) a region or district approximately 6 miles square (93.2 sq. km), containing 36 sections.

a. one of the local divisions or districts of a large parish in ancient England.

b. the parish itself.

4. (in South Africa) a residential settlement for blacks, located outside a city or town.

[before 900]

Township

the inhabitants of a town, collectively, c. 890.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

township - an administrative division of a county; "the town is responsible for snow removal"

town

administrative district, administrative division, territorial division - a district defined for administrative purposes

Translations

obec

canton hameau

borgata cittadina ghetto negro territorio

vila

township

[ˈtaʊnʃɪp] N (= small town) → pueblo m (US) → municipio m (South Africa) asentamiento urbano creado en tiempos del apartheid para gente de raza negra en Sudáfrica

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township

[ˈtaʊnʃɪp] n → township m or f

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township

n → (Stadt)gemeinde f; (US) → Verwaltungsbezirk m; (US Surv) → 6 Meilen großes Gebiet; (in South Africa) → Township f

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township

[ˈtaʊnʃɪp] n → township f inv

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The raiment of Marco and his wife was of coarse tow-linen and linsey-woolsey respectively, and resembled township maps, it being made up pretty exclusively of patches which had been added, township by township, in the course of five or six years, until hardly a hand's-breadth of the original garments was surviving and present.

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The steam ploughs had, however, kept the railroad open, and the evening train which connects the long line of coal-mining and iron-working settlements was slowly groaning its way up the steep gradients which lead from Stagville on the plain to Vermissa, the central township which lies at the head of Vermissa Valley.

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'I'll get you the name of the branch he's been promoted to, for I think I heard they'd moved him up one already.' And the next day he brought me the name of the township of Yea, some fifty miles north of Melbourne; but, with the vagueness which characterized all his information, he was unable to say whether I should find my relative there or not.

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In this second attempt I had the support of several people to whom I had rendered some service, and I was backed by the members of the Communal Council, for I had appealed to their parsimonious instincts, showing them how much it cost to support the poor wretches, and pointing out how largely they might gain by converting their plots of ground (to which the idiots had no proper title) into allotments which were needed in the township.

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Besides these bands, a less orderly and a worse armed force, consisting of the Saxon inhabitants of the neighbouring township, as well as many bondsmen and servants from Cedric's extensive estate, had already arrived, for the purpose of assisting in his rescue.

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But I was wishing we had a good farm in Bartlett, or Bethlehem, or Littleton, or some other township round the White Mountains; but not where they could tumble on our heads.

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The little township of Bashan was once the kingdom so famous in Scripture for its bulls and its oaks.

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Long before there had been a thought of a township there, when the Metropolis was still quite a distant thing, old Mr.

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In our own township of Hordle two have lost their eyes and one his skin for this very thing.

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Judge Temple, the landlord and owner of a township, with Nathaniel Bumppo a lawless squatter, and professed deer-killer, in order to preserve the game of the county!

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"He'll be all over the township in a minute if we don't head him," said Penfentenyou, leaping to his feet, and crashing into the garden.

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He held them silent with ghastly stories of the "Yo-hoes" on Monomoy Beach, that mock and terrify lonely clam-diggers; of sand-walkers and dune-haunters who were never properly buried; of hidden treasure on Fire Island guarded by the spirits of Kidd's men; of ships that sailed in the fog straight over Truro township; of that harbour in Maine where no one but a stranger will lie at anchor twice in a certain place because of a dead crew who row alongside at midnight with the anchor in the bow of their old-fashioned boat, whistling - not calling, but whistling - for the soul of the man who broke their rest.

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