small-town

adjective

Pertaining to a small town; provincial.

Meanings

adjectivesmall-town (not comparable)

alternative smalltown

  1. not comparablePertaining to a small town; provincial.

    He was brought up in the 350s and 360s in small-town North Africa.

    2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 301

Origin

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