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smalltown en · ADJ

Etymology

From small + town.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of small-town.
    alt of small-town
    • Indeed, several of the most notorious anti-Jewish incidents of nineteenth-century America were played out in smalltown settings. 2005, Lee Shai Weissbach, Jewish life in small-town America: a history, page 231
    • we're smalltown people 1995, New York Magazine, Deaths in a Small Town - May 15, 1995, page 18:
    • 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. 2013 February 15, Priyanka Srivastava, “Is Bollywood trying to rid Muslim characters of stereotypes?”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Oct 2015:
    • 13 Parvenu United Local rivalries, smalltown boys and city slickers Alan Tomlinson The Football League 2004, David L. Andrews, Manchester United: a thematic study, page 189