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# township

noun

«township» in the English dictionary: in Wikipedia — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Wikipedia

Source: the Wikipedia dictionary, from the English Wikipedia articles Mova reads whole. Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). A draft: made natively by Nautilus, one of Mova's workers, from Mova's own counts; not reviewed. Not part of Mova: never in its repository, releases or programs.

### Counted by Mova

143 uses in 32 of the 531 articles of the Wikipedia school's corpus; as a noun in 143 of 143. By the class of the article: city 17, country 7, agglomeration 6, institute 1. Most often with: «city», «other», «area», «locate», «form».

### Examples

- Abington Township is a township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. — [Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abington_Township,_Montgomery_County,_Pennsylvania), sentence 1 («wiki:Abington\_Township,\_Montgomery\_County,\_Pennsylvania:1»)
- Under these, townships are the basic form of local government. — [China](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China), sentence 198 («wiki:China:198»)
- New Township police station, located in MAMC township, has jurisdiction over parts of the Durgapur municipal corporation and the Faridpur Durgapur CD Block. — [Durgapur](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durgapur), sentence 25 («wiki:Durgapur:25»)

### Note

Draft: made natively by Nautilus from the Wikipedia school's corpus; the counts and examples are Mova's own, the meaning is the pupils' dictionary's; no sense of this source is written yet.

### Sources

- From Wikipedia, [«Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abington_Township,_Montgomery_County,_Pennsylvania), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«China»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Durgapur»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durgapur), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- Examples quote Wikipedia; this block is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.