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Smallville

Smallville proper noun: a fictional small town, frequently representing a backwater place of origin, usually a rural farming community in the United States.

Proper noun

Smallville

  1. A fictional small town, frequently representing a backwater place of origin, usually a rural farming community in the United States

Origin of Smallville

From small + -ville.

Words formed from Smallville

Questions about Smallville

What does Smallville mean?
Smallville means a fictional small town, frequently representing a backwater place of origin, usually a rural farming community in the United States.
What part of speech is Smallville?
Smallville is a proper noun.

Words near Smallville in the dictionary

  1. smalltime
  2. smalltimer
  3. smalltimers
  4. Smalltimore
  5. smalltown
  6. Smallville
  7. Smallvilleverse
  8. smallware
  9. smallwares
  10. smallwig
  11. smallwigs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Smallville (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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