townlet

[ toun-lit ]

noun

1. a small town.

Word History and Origins

Origin of townlet¹

First recorded in 1545–55; town + -let

Example Sentences

From his balcony at night, he watches the twinkling lights of the nearby townlet and, sitting above it like a judge, the dark outline of a monastery.

From The New Yorker

I should do that townlet too much honour if I left it to be supposed that its only traditions are concerned with heavenly presences.

From Project Gutenberg

The headland, which, like every other eminence in sight, is purely volcanic, is a lofty mass of tufa, united with the land by a lower tongue, like a mere causeway; and on the nearer side stands the Castle of Bai�, with the insignificant townlet which bears on its small shoulders the burden of so great a name.

From Project Gutenberg

Four miles more we carried on gaily, 4-1/4 miles perhaps, for we were almost free from the long townlet of Harleston when more trouble came.

From Project Gutenberg

I soon reached Llan Silin, a village or townlet, having some high hills at a short distance to the westward, which form part of the Berwyn. p. 386I entered the kitchen of an old-fashioned public-house, and sitting down by a table, told the landlord, a red-nosed, elderly man, who came bowing up to me, to bring me a pint of ale. 

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