township.
The territory of a town.
Meaning & usage
The territory of a town.
A subdivision of a county.
An area set aside for nonwhite occupation.
A nonwhite (usually subeconomic) area attached to a city.
A small town.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English towneship, townschip, tounshipe, tunscipe, from Old English tūnsċipe (“the inhabitants of a town; township”), equivalent to town + -ship.
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