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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.
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5.
(in South Africa) a segregated residential settlement for blacks, located outside a city or town.
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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
EXPANDCanada, first recorded 1685.
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