Antonyms for township
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : toun-ship |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈtaʊn ʃɪp |
Definition of township
Origin :- Old English tunscipe "inhabitants or population of a town." Applied in Middle English to "manor, parish, or other division of a hundred." Specific sense of "local division or district in a parish, each with a village or small town and its own church" is from 1530s; as a local municipal division of a county in U.S. and Canada, first recorded 1685.
- As in area : noun region, district
- As in municipality : noun city
- As in territory : noun domain, region
- As in town : noun incorporated community
- The neighborhood, the township, and the world had been snowed in.
- Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
- The township of Cleveland, of the county of Trumbull, was organized in 1800.
- Extract from : « Cleveland Past and Present » by Maurice Joblin
- There are a door and two windows, the latter having been bought at the township.
- Extract from : « Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) » by William Delisle Hay
- He's the chairman here, and he has township chairmen appointed for every township.
- Extract from : « Stories of a Western Town » by Octave Thanet
- This admiration and regard has extended to the fair daughters of the township.
- Extract from : « The Depot Master » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- And he then goes on to show the advantages of the New England township.
- Extract from : « The Farmer and His Community » by Dwight Sanderson
- The school board administers the affairs of all the schools in the township.
- Extract from : « Rural Life and the Rural School » by Joseph Kennedy
- We have telegraphed his description to the police of every township up and down the land.
- Extract from : « Within the Tides » by Joseph Conrad
- But the family or the township has also other objects of worship.
- Extract from : « History of Religion » by Allan Menzies
- His best girl was the township champion looker, Luella Thickins.
- Extract from : « In a Little Town » by Rupert Hughes
Synonyms for township
- apple
- area
- belt
- block
- boondocks
- borough
- boundary
- burg
- city
- colony
- commonwealth
- community
- country
- county
- district
- division
- domain
- dominion
- empire
- enclave
- enclosure
- exclave
- expanse
- extent
- field
- hamlet
- kingdom
- land
- locality
- mandate
- metropolis
- municipality
- nation
- neck of the woods
- neighborhood
- parcel
- patch
- plot
- precinct
- principality
- province
- quarter
- seat
- section
- sector
- sphere
- square
- state
- sticks
- stomping grounds
- street
- stretch
- terrain
- terrene
- territory
- town
- township
- tract
- turf
- vicinity
- village
- walk
- ward
- whistle-stop
- zone
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