small-town
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ˈsmall-town adjective [only before noun] 1 TOWNfrom, or relating to, a small town （来自）小镇的 a small-town newspaper 一份小镇上的报纸2 American English (also smallville /ˈsmɔːlvɪl $ ˈsmɒːl-/)INTERESTED# 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 偏狭的，狭隘保守的 → parochial small-town attitudes 狭隘的看法
Examples from the Corpus
small-town• In his elegant clothes, Wilfred could have passed easily for Bat Masterson instead of a small-town banker.• Novelist Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt was the archetypal small-town booster.• He wouldn't look twice at a small-town girl, even if she could design wedding dresses.• Nor were they inconsequential gossip and rumor being whispered by small-town idlers on local street corners.• Finally within the context of small-town morphology, we might briefly consider the question of the location of cemeteries.• 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.• small-town valuesˈsmall-town adjectiveChineseSyllable
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small-town
ˈsmall-town
adjective [only before noun]
1. from, or relating to, a small town:
a small-town newspaper
2. American 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
ˈsmall-town
adjective [only before noun]1. from, or relating to, a small town:
2. American 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: