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small towns

small towns is the plural of small town.

Meaning of small 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...
    Synonyms:
    townie, townlet

Questions about small towns

What is small towns the plural of?
Small towns is the plural of small town.

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