small town

plural small towns · alternative small-town · alternative smalltown

1. 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

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   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

   Synonyms: townie, townlet