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small-town

[smawl-toun] / ˈsmɔlˈtaʊn /
ADJECTIVE
local
Synonyms
WEAK
bounded civic confined district divisional geographical insular legendary limited narrow narrow-minded neighborhood parish parochial provincial regional sectarian sectional territorial town vernacular

Example Sentences

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What was small-town life in Millen, Ga., like for you as a funny kid growing up?

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026

“The Scarlet Letter” has engraved Nathaniel Hawthorne’s name into our national psyche as a critic of tyrannical small-town morality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Jared Keeso stars in this “Letterkenny” spinoff satirizing performative masculinity among a small-town Canadian hockey team.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 27, 2026

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 • Feb. 22, 2026

Alice subscribed to all the small-town news-papers in the area to keep up with local events.

From "Frindle" by Andrew Clements

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.