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[ smawl-toun ] / ˈsmɔlˈtaʊn / SEE SYNONYMS FOR small-town ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveof, relating to, or characteristic of a town or village: a typical, small-town general store. provincial or unsophisticated: small-town manners. Origin of small-townFirst recorded in 1880–85 OTHER WORDS FROM small-townsmall-towner, nounWords nearby small-townsmall stores, small stuff, smallsword, small talk, small time, small-town, small white, small wonder, smalt, smaltite, smalto Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for small-townIt is certainly more stylish than a council flat in a small-town banlieue! Hell Hath No Fury Like Valerie Trierweiler, the French President’s Ex|Lizzie Crocker|November 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST A small-town Ohio elementary school teacher just racked up 25 charges on an otherwise clean record for allegedly raping her son. Ohio Elementary School Teacher Charged With Raping Her Son|Nina Strochlic|November 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST Instead, Ernst is seen as a “likable, relatable person” who is cut “from the cloth of small-town Iowa.” The Bruce Braley-Joni Ernst Race Is Iowa’s Ugliest Senate Campaign Ever|Ben Jacobs|July 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST And the first two episodes were directed by Peter Berg of Friday Night Lights, who is a master of small-town pathos. ‘The Leftovers’ Review: A Fever Dream You Can’t Wake Up From|Andrew Romano|June 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But from the quiet solitude of small-town New England, Dr. Anderson would offer a soothing late-night phone call or Skype session. My Therapist Dumped Me|Lizzie Crocker|April 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST Suppose, then, on top of all the drawbacks of small-town life, the girls had to work under big-city factory conditions? Working With the Working Woman|Cornelia Stratton Parker Another of her relatives, a niece, had married a small-town sharper. On the Stairs|Henry B. Fuller Her taste in dress was soubrettish and flagrant, but it was not small-town. We Can't Have Everything|Rupert Hughes In their quiet, small-town lives the love-letters of Henrietta's William Vane had been important events. In Pawn|Ellis Parker Butler He had listened to the call of the city, but he was still a small-town man. The Gay Cockade|Temple Bailey
Words related to small-townbounded, civic, confined, district, geographical, insular, legendary, limited, narrow, narrow-minded, neighborhood, parish, parochial, provincial, regional, sectarian, sectional, territorial, town, vernacular |