SMALL TOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does small town mean? 

• SMALL TOWN (noun)
  The noun SMALL TOWN has 1 sense:

1. a community of people smaller than a town

  Familiarity information: SMALL TOWN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SMALL TOWN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A community of people smaller than a town

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

settlement; small town; village

Hypernyms ("small town" is a kind of...):

community (a group of people living in a particular local area)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "small town"):

moshav (a cooperative Israeli village or settlement comprised of small farms)

 Context examples 

Researchers Emily Sneff and Danielle Allen found the document in the archives of the small town of Chichester in Sussex, in southern England.

(Parchment Copy of Declaration of Independence Found in Small British Town, VOA)

Yes. . . . Well, I can't talk now. . . . I can't talk now, old sport. . . . I said a small town. . . . He must know what a small town is. . . . Well, he's no use to us if Detroit is his idea of a small town. . . .

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)