small town
See also: smalltown and small-town
English
Alternative forms
- (especially when used attributively or adjectivally) small-town, smalltown
Noun
small town (plural small towns)
- A small (generally rural) town.
- a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “I went to heaven”, in Mabel Loomis Todd and T[homas] W[entworth] Higginson, editors, Poems, Second Series, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1891, page 196:
- I went to heaven,– / ’T was a small town, / Lit with a ruby, / Lathed with down.
- 1990, Lou Reed & John Cale (lyrics and music), “Smalltown”, in Songs for Drella:
- There's only one good use for a small town / You hate it—and you know you'll have to leave
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