Smalltownとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

small town (複数形 small towns)

1. A small (generally rural) town.
   • 1891, Emily Dickinson, “I went to heaven”, in T. W. Higginson; M. L. Todd, editors, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Second Series, Boston: Roberts Brothers, page 196:

     I went to heaven,– / ’T was a small town, / Lit with a ruby, / Lathed with down.

   • 1990, Lou Reed & John Cale (lyrics かつ music), “Smalltown”, in Songs for Drella:

     There's only one good use for a small town / You hate it—and you know you'll have to leave

形容詞

small-town (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to a small town; provincial.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 301:

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

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形容詞

smalltown ‎(not comparable)

1. Alternative form of small-town
   • 1995, New York Magazine, Deaths in a Small Town - May 15, 1995, page 18

     we're smalltown people

   • 2004, David L. Andrews, Manchester United: a thematic study, page 189

     13 Parvenu United Local rivalries, smalltown boys and city slickers Alan Tomlinson The Football League

   • 2005, Lee Shai Weissbach, Jewish life in small-town America: a history, page 231

     Indeed, several of the most notorious anti-Jewish incidents of nineteenth-century America were played out in smalltown settings.