small-town

[smawl-toun]

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.

Other Word Forms

• small-towner noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of small-town¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

The series begins in a light mood, almost like a small-town comedy with cops.

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But not from Orange, whose city fathers have long cast it as a slice of small-town Americana free from big-city problems or national issues.

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Similar successes in later years of Priyanka Chopra, Diana Hayden and Lara Dutta have only reinforced the belief that beauty pageants can be a ticket to success, especially for young women in small-town India.

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The small-town family from Nepal became, by necessity, versed in the distant Middle Eastern conflict that had claimed their son, whose college education they hoped might transform their fortunes.

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"We are truly at a tipping point. If cloud farming continues to scale, small-town India could well become the world's largest hub for AI operations, just as it became the hub for IT services two decades ago."

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