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small town

small town noun: a small (generally rural) town.

Noun

small town (plural small towns)

  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...
    • There's only one good use for a small town / You hate it—and you know you'll have to leave1990, Lou Reed, John Cale, “Smalltown”, in Songs for Drella
    Synonyms:
    townie, townlet

small town meaning in Tamil

small town in Tamil

பட்டினம்

Synonyms of small town

Forms of small town

pluralsmall towns
alternative formsmall-town
alternative formsmalltown

Words formed from small town

Questions about small town

What does small town mean?
Small town means a small (generally rural) town.
What is small town in Tamil?
Small town in Tamil is பட்டினம். See Small town meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is small town?
Small town is a noun.
What is the plural of small town?
The plural of small town is small towns.

Words near small town in the dictionary

  1. small talk
  2. small text
  3. small time
  4. small tortoiseshell
  5. small tortoiseshells
  6. small town
  7. small townie
  8. small townies
  9. small towns
  10. small ubiquitin-related modifier
  11. small ubiquitin-related modifiers

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