Meaning of cityman | Babel Free

Definitions

A man from a city.

Examples

“He wants the frankness (now) of manner which alone could carry a man in his position through an hour’s dejeunering with squab citymen who had no notion of what it would be proper to say to him.”

“They don’t want to be saddled with a bunch of citymen.”

“In the first year, we even took in a half-dozen citymen and nursed them while they died of radiation burns.”

“We were completely free of any sense of peril, though the streets were full of citymen drawn by the sweet scent of prostitutes.”

“A twenty-four man ‘committee’ rounded up at Summerhill was strongly suspected of liaising with the mountain bands at Whelp Rock and it was common knowledge that guides known as ‘express boys’ were bringing groups of citymen into the hills.”

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