township
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ʃɪp noun
1.
a unit of local government, usually 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.
3.
English History.
a.
one of the local divisions or districts of a large parish, each containing a village or small town, usually with a church of its own.
b.
the manor, parish, etc., itself.
c.
its inhabitants.
4.
5.
(in South Africa) a segregated residential settlement for blacks, located outside a city or town.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a small town |
| 2. | (in the Scottish Highlands and islands) a small crofting community |
| 3. | (in the US and Canada) a territorial area, esp a subdivision of a county: often organized as a unit of local government |
| 4. | Compare location (formerly, in South Africa) a planned urban settlement of Black Africans or Coloured people |
| 5. | 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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Word Origin & History
township
O.E. tunscipe "inhabitants or population of a town." Applied in M.E. 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 1540; as a local municipal division of a county in U.S. and
Canada, first recorded 1685.
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Example sentences
Township residents have rejected a proposed referendum proposal to ask whether they want to abolish the township government.
The newcomers, known as prawns and numbering millions, are fenced into a township and forced to scavenge.
Imagine if your county, township, or neighborhood had it's own energy source.
After leading a protest in his township, he was arrested and released.
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