township

Etymology

From Middle English towneship, townschip, tounshipe, tunscipe, from Old English tūnsċipe (“the inhabitants of a town; township”), equivalent to town + -ship.

noun

  1. The territory of a town.
    The train is usually crowded and half the township of Forres seems to turn out to watch it go off. 1944 January and February, W. McGowan Gradon, “Forres as a Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 23
    Furthermore, everyone knows that the crops grown at Chou-Shui River are of high quality, like the rice of Siluo Township, watermelons of Erlun Township, garlic of Cihtong Township, flowers of Shijo Township, guava of Shetou Township, and so on. 2010, Rajib Shaw, Danai Thaitakoo, Water Communities, Emerald Books, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 252
  2. (US, Canada) A subdivision of a county.
  3. (South Africa, Pre 1994) An area set aside for nonwhite occupation.
    In addition, the council has completed the planning of a new Coloured township on the site of the existing African township. 1972, Daily Dispatch
  4. (South Africa, Post 1994) A nonwhite (usually subeconomic) area attached to a city.
  5. (Australia, New Zealand) A small town.

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