FromMiddle Englishtowneship,townschip,tounshipe,tunscipe, fromOld Englishtūnsċipe(“the inhabitants of a town; township”), equivalent totown +‎-ship.

• (UK)IPA^(key):/ˈtaʊnʃɪp/

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township (pluraltownships)

1. The territory of atown.
   • 1944 January and February, W. McGowan Gradon, “Forres as a Railway Centre”, inRailway Magazine, page23:

     The train is usually crowded and half thetownship of Forres seems to turn out to watch it go off.

   • 2010, Rajib Shaw, Danai Thaitakoo,Water Communities‎^[1],Emerald Books,→ISBN,→ISSN,→OCLC, page252:

     Furthermore, everyone knows that the crops grown at Chou-Shui River are of high quality, like the rice of SiluoTownship, watermelons of ErlunTownship, garlic of CihtongTownship, flowers of ShijoTownship, guava of ShetouTownship, and so on.

2. (US,Canada) A subdivision of acounty.
3. (South Africa, Pre 1994) An area set aside fornonwhite occupation.
   • 1972,Daily Dispatch:

     In addition, the council has completed the planning of a newColouredtownship on the site of the existing Africantownship.

4. (South Africa, Post 1994) A nonwhite (usuallysubeconomic) area attached to a city.
5. (Australia,New Zealand) A small town.

• In the US (derived from an obsolete UK usage), the term "township" refers to a division of a county, and may include one or more towns, villages, hamlets, or small cities. It may also be an administrative district for an unincorporated rural area. The exact nature of a township, and its role in local administration, differs from state to state. Not every state has townships, more detail can be found in the articleTownship (United States).

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• Portuguese:township

Jean Branford, editor (1978),A Dictionary of South African English, Oxford

• IPA^(key):/tawn.ʃip/

township m (pluraltownships)

1. township (in South Africa)
2. (North America)canton

township

1. (historical)township(area set aside for non-white occupation in South Africa)