small-town

[ smawl-toun ]
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adjective
  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of a town or village: a typical, small-town general store.

  2. provincial or unsophisticated: small-town manners.

Origin of small-town

1
First recorded in 1880–85

Other words from small-town

  • small-towner, noun

Words Nearby small-town

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How to use small-town in a sentence

  • The Duchess had also a tent for their sick men; so that we had a small town of our own here, and every body employed.

  • But those I speak of, the best women of every small town, are constantly active in civic affairs.

    Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton
  • With resignation he made the necessary preparations for the trip, and taking Orlean with him, went to the small town.

    The Homesteader | Oscar Micheaux
  • His first regular novel was "Garman and Worse," a picture of the same small-town society which we find in the novel here printed.

    Skipper Worse | Alexander Lange Kielland
  • The carriage took the ladies and their maid to a small town, some twelve miles off.