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What do you call someone from the same town as you?

What do you call someone from the same town as you?

3 Answers. This site defines townsman (sense 2) as “a native or inhabitant of one’s own or the same town.” Same goes for townswoman. That sounds fine to me. Or “You two are townspeople.”

What do you call someone who is from your hometown?

townspeople. noun. the people who live in a town or city.

What do you call people from the same village?

locals; village people; villagers.

What do you call people from a small town?

Yokel is a disparaging name for someone from a small town or the countryside. If so, when you visit the Big City an unkind “city slicker” may call you a yokel.

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What is a suburbanite?

suburbanite. / (səˈbɜːbəˌnaɪt) / noun. a person who lives in a suburb.

What do you call a person living in a rural area?

You could use ruralite. Per Oxford Dictionaries Online: A person who lives in a rural area; a country-dweller.

What do we call people who live in cities?

A person who lives in a metropolis, or city, is also called a metropolitan. You may have loved cities even when you were growing up in the suburbs, looking forward to the day you could become a true metropolitan in the biggest city you could find.

Is hometown and village same?

A village is a very small town, usually in a rural or isolated area. In the United States, most people talk about their home town, not home village.

What do you call people from the same place?

Senior Member If it’s a person from the same country, we say “fellow countryman”, “compatriot” or sometimes use the German word “Landsmann”.

What do you call a rural person?

What is a big city person called?

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city slicker noun(offensive) sophisticated city person. big-city person. city boy. city dweller. metropolitan.

What is the meaning of Wiliest?

wily. / (ˈwaɪlɪ) / adjective wilier or wiliest. characterized by or proceeding from wiles; sly or crafty.

What do you call the people who live in a city?

You can use townspeople or townsfolk. the people who live in a town or city. I would have to advocate the word citizen (s) as it really is the correct word, common-place parlance has reduced/expanded (depending on you point of view) its validity, however the word still stands as being the correct term for an inhabitant of a city.

What do you call the people who live in the same country?

We usually use the word ‘countryman’ or ‘countrywoman’ for the people who live in the same country. What word do we use for the people living in the same city or town? This site defines townsman (sense 2) as “a native or inhabitant of one’s own or the same town.” Same goes for townswoman.

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How do you say fellow New Yorkers without naming the city?

There is no one-word way, and also no natural-sounding way to say it without naming the city. or ‘fellow New Yorkers/Bostonians/San Franciscans/Dubliners/Londoners/Parisians/…’ if there is a specific noun for residents of that city.