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)

1. 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

Translations

a small town

• German: Kleinstadt (de) f
• Hungarian: kisváros (hu)
• Spanish: pueblito m, pueblucho m