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# towny

«towny» in Mova's school dictionary: **Towny describes someone or something that belongs to the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (towny, townier, towniest); noun (a towny, townies — informal)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Towny describes someone or something that belongs to the town, not the countryside, or that likes town life (informal). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/towny/#m1)

2) A towny (often spelled townie) is a person from the town, especially as country people or students see them (informal, sometimes unkind). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/towny/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

You meet «towny» in informal speech and stories about life in the country and the town. It often shows a friendly or teasing contrast: a towny child does not know about cows. Phrases: towny folk, a bit towny.

### examples

- The farm kids laughed at the towny boy who was scared of the sheep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/towny/#x1)
- Gran calls us townies when we visit her village. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/towny/#x2)
- The towny clothes looked strange in the muddy field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/towny/#x3)
- She is too towny to enjoy camping. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/towny/#x4)
- The students and the townies played a football match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/towny/#x5)

### note

Informal. The more common spelling for the noun is «townie». Opposite idea: country folk. Can sound teasing.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «towny» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/towny/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.