towner vs resident

towner and resident both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
towner	Yes	No	No	No
resident	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, resident is a hypernym of towner; that is, resident is a word with a broader meaning than towner:

towner: a resident of a town or city
resident: someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there

Other hypernyms of towner include occupant, occupier.

towner (noun)	resident (noun)
a resident of a town or city	someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there
	a physician (especially an intern) who lives in a hospital and cares for hospitalized patients under the supervision of the medical staff of the hospital

towner (adjective)	resident (adjective)
	living in a particular place
	used of animals that do not migrate