township

3 definitions • 5 examples

a South African town where only black people lived during apartheid:

the township of Soweto

poverty and deprivation in the townships

township music

in the US and Canada, a unit of local government consisting of a town and the area surrounding it:

the township of Dulce, New Mexico

Madison Township, Ohio

(in parts of the US and Canada) a unit of local government consisting of a town and the area surrounding it