Usually means: Announcer of news in public.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word town crier:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. town crier: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. town crier: Merriam-Webster
  3. town crier: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. town crier: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. town crier: Collins English Dictionary
  6. town crier: Vocabulary.com
  7. town-crier: Wordnik
  8. town crier: Wiktionary
  9. town crier: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. town crier: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Town-crier, town crier: Dictionary.com
  12. Town Crier (newspaper), Town Crier, Town crier: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Town-crier: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. town-crier: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. town crier: Rhymezone
  16. Town-crier: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. town-crier: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. town-crier, town crier: FreeDictionary.org
  19. town crier: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Town-crier, town crier: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. town crier: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. town crier: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. TOWN CRIER, TOWN CRIER, TOWN CRIER: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Town Crier: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See town_criers as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (town crier)

noun:  (British, historical) A person who is employed by a town council to make public announcements in the streets
noun:  (by extension) A gossip

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