Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - small town

Note: in BRIT, also use 'smalltown' Small town is used when referring to small places, usually in the United States, where people are friendly, honest, and polite, or to the people there. Small town is also sometimes used to suggest that someone has old-fashioned ideas. (mainly AM) ...an idealized small-town America of neat, middle-class homes... ADJ: usu ADJ n