township
pronunciation
How to pronounce township in British English:
UK [ˈtaʊnʃɪp]
How to pronounce township in American English:
US [ˈtaʊnˌʃɪp]
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- Noun:
- an administrative division of a county
Word Origin
- township (n.)
- Old English tunscipe "inhabitants or population of a town;" see town + -ship. Applied in Middle English to "manor, parish, or other division of a hundred." Specific sense of "local division or district in a parish, each with a village or small town and its own church" is from 1530s; as a local municipal division of a county in U.S. and Canada, first recorded 1685. In South Africa, "area set aside for non-whites" from 1934.
Example
- 1. Village cadres will be afraid of villagers , not the township government .
- 2. Nkosi , born xolani nkosi , was born to nonthlanthla daphne nkosi in a township east of johannesburg in 1989 .
- 3. She was born in new brunswick , new jersey and resided in east brunswick township .
- 4. 7 / 17 Erasmia , south africa : children play football in the township
- 5. Article 14 the people 's congress of a township , nationality township or town shall have a chairman , and may have one or two vice-chairmen .