smalltown

See also: small-town and small town

English

Etymology

From small +‎ town.

Adjective

smalltown (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of small-town.
    • 1995, New York Magazine, Deaths in a Small Town - May 15, 1995, page 18:
      we're smalltown people
    • 2004, David L. Andrews, Manchester United: a thematic study, page 189
      13 Parvenu United Local rivalries, smalltown boys and city slickers Alan Tomlinson The Football League
    • 2005, Lee Shai Weissbach, Jewish life in small-town America: a history, page 231
      Indeed, several of the most notorious anti-Jewish incidents of nineteenth-century America were played out in smalltown settings.
    • 2013 February 15, Priyanka Srivastava, “Is Bollywood trying to rid Muslim characters of stereotypes?”, in Daily Mail‎[1], London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 October 2015:
      The film updates the Romeo & Juliet formula, and narrates the story of a Hindu boy and a Muslim girl in a smalltown Uttar Pradesh setup.

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