释义 |
small-townˈsmall-town adjective [only before noun] - Finally within the context of small-town morphology, we might briefly consider the question of the location of cemeteries.
- He wouldn't look twice at a small-town girl, even if she could design wedding dresses.
- In his elegant clothes, Wilfred could have passed easily for Bat Masterson instead of a small-town banker.
- Nor were they inconsequential gossip and rumor being whispered by small-town idlers on local street corners.
- Novelist Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt was the archetypal small-town booster.
- Such diversity is to be expected and may indicate different categories of settlement within the small-town range.
- They found, however, that this relationship only held up for workers in small-town settings.
1from, or relating to, a small town: a small-town newspaper2American English (also small‧ville /ˈsmɔːlvɪl $ ˈsmɒːl-/) relating to ideas, qualities etc that people in small towns are supposed to have, which sometimes include a lack of interest in anything new or different → parochial: small-town attitudes |