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Definition of Town crier
1. Noun. (formerly) an official who made public announcements.
Definition of Town crier
1. Noun. (British) A person who is employed by a town council to make public announcements in the streets ¹
2. Noun. (context: by extension) A gossip ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Town Crier
Literary usage of Town crier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer and by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, Robert Philip Tyrwhitt (1837)
"... under his hand and seal, duly nominated and appointed the said plaintiff to
the said office of town-crier of the said borough and town of ..."
2. The Path on the Rainbow: An Anthology of Songs and Chants from the Indians by George William Cronyn, Mary Hunter Austin (1918)
"... town crier CALLS AT DAWN TO ANNOUNCE THE FEAST (Pueblo) All people awake, open
your eyes, arise, Become children of light, vigorous, active, sprightly. ..."
3. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1899)
"... was possessed of the said office of town crier for the term last aforesaid,
to wit, in the county aforesaid, and that office, for a long space of time, ..."
4. The Merv Oasis: Travels and Adventures East of the Caspian During the Years by Edmund O'Donovan (1883)
"... —A tribute from the Jews—Turcoman horses—Appearance and qualities of —
Prices—Heterogeneous weights —town crier—Purchasers — Fuel ..."
5. History of the Pilgrims and Puritans: Their Ancestry and Descendants; Basis by Joseph Dillaway Sawyer (1922)
"... still held in leash by Provincetown village folk to let go on apt occasion,
is for a town crier to wail forth information of doings at home and abroad. ..."
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