tenant vs townsman

tenant

noun
  • One who has possession of any place. 

  • One who owns real estate other than via allodial title. 

  • Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application. 

  • One who holds a lease (a tenancy). 

  • One who holds a feudal tenure in real property. 

verb
  • To hold as, or be, a tenant. 

  • To inhabit. 

townsman

noun
  • A man who is a resident of a town, especially of one's own town. 

  • A resident of a university town, as opposed to a scholar at the university; a townie. 

How often have the words tenant and townsman occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )