A surname. / Any one of a number of municipalities in anglophone areas.

(countable) A surname. / (countable) A male given name / A community in Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada / A township in Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada / A town in Delaware, United States

A surname originating as a patronymic.

plural of townsperson

An inhabitant of a town.

townsfolk

Throughout a township.

plural of Townsend discharge

A gas ionization process where free electrons, accelerated by a sufficiently strong electric field, give rise to electrical conduction through a gas by avalanche multiplication caused by the ionization of molecules by ion impact.

Synonym of Townsend discharge