small-town
Americanadjective
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of, relating to, or characteristic of a town or village.
a typical, small-town general store.
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provincial or unsophisticated.
small-town manners.
Other Word Forms
- small-towner noun
Etymology
Origin of small-town
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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The tipping point was, on the surface, a typical small-town dispute.
Jared Keeso stars in this “Letterkenny” spinoff satirizing performative masculinity among a small-town Canadian hockey team.
From MarketWatch
“The Scarlet Letter” has engraved Nathaniel Hawthorne’s name into our national psyche as a critic of tyrannical small-town morality.
Despite his obvious good looks and small-town charm, something suspicious gnawed at me.
From Los Angeles Times
For now though, style and savings appear to have trumped concerns about sustainability, with many small-town Indians only just getting on to the fast-fashion bandwagon.
From BBC
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