small-town

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See also: smalltown and small town

English

Etymology

small + town

Adjective

small-town (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to a small town; provincial.
    • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 301:
      He was brought up in the 350s and 360s in small-town North Africa.

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