small town en · NOUN
Meanings
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A small (generally rural) town.
I went to heaven,– / ’T was a small town, / Lit with a ruby, / Lathed with down.
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:There's only one good use for a small town / You hate it—and you know you'll have to leave
1990, Lou Reed, John Cale, “Smalltown”, in Songs for Drella:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| small-town | alternative | lexicographic | |
| smalltown | alternative | lexicographic | |
| small towns | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
small townie · small-towny · small-townie