small-town

American  

[smawl-toun] / ˈsmɔlˈtaʊn /

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.

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Other Word Forms

• small-towner noun

Etymology

Origin of small-town

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

He points to Ari Aster’s small-town social satire “Eddington” as a film that is reflective of its moment without being didactic.

From Los Angeles Times

What was small-town life in Millen, Ga., like for you as a funny kid growing up?

From Los Angeles Times

For old-fashioned small-town drama, however, nothing was juicier than “Seized,” about a tiny Kansas newspaper and the police raid on its office and the home of its editor and his 98-year-old mother, the paper’s longtime co-owner who died the very next day.

From The Wall Street Journal

The tipping point was, on the surface, a typical small-town dispute.

From The Wall Street Journal

Jared Keeso stars in this “Letterkenny” spinoff satirizing performative masculinity among a small-town Canadian hockey team.

From MarketWatch