townsman

noun

Etymology: From Middle English townes-man, from Old English tūnmann, tūnes mann, equivalent to town + -s- + man.

1. A man who is a resident of a town, especially of one's own town.

   “Two independent witnesses would testify that he carried no parcel. They were townsmen of St. Abbots who had travelled down in the same carriage with him.”

   “Largely by reason of the persistence of John Crevallier Cobbold, a leading townsman and a member of a respected Suffolk family, the scheme was brought to fruition and by an Act dated July 19, 1844, the Eastern Union Railway came into existence.”

2. A resident of a university town, as opposed to a scholar at the university; a townie.
3. Synonym of oppidan (“type of student”).