township(Twp. 1) a small town 2) (in the Scottish Highlands and islands) a small crofting community 3) (in the US and Canada) a territorial area, esp a subdivision of a county: often organized as a unit of local government 4) (formerly, in South Africa) a planned urban settlement of Black Africans or Coloured people 5) English history: a) any of the local districts of a large parish, each division containing a village or small town b) the particular manor or parish itself as a territorial division c) the inhabitants of a township collectively. CED Alexander Demidov)
