small towns
Not big cities
Small towns are communities larger than villages but smaller than cities, typically with populations in the thousands rather than tens of thousands.
The phrase carries strong cultural associations with close-knit community, traditional values, and slower pace of life: small-town America, small-town gossip.
Someone with a small-town mentality may be seen as provincial or unsophisticated, though the term can also suggest authenticity and neighborliness that cities lack.
- villagesSmall rural settlements
- agricultureCultivation of land, livestock
- fairImpartial and unbiased
- ruralOf the countryside
- churchPlace of Christian worship
square · farmland · neighborliness · everybody knows everybody · town gossip · town meetings · hamlet · pastoral · dirt roads · parades · Friday night lights · community spirit · bell · old timers · local folklore · rural communities · microcosm · settlement
- American landscapeprairies, plains, Great Plains, heartland, Midwest
- rural Midwestcornfields, grain elevators, farms, family farms, silos
- SouthernSouthern belles, sweet tea, front porch, grits, y'all
- rural terrainhills, valleys, ridges, slopes, foothills
- Great PlainsGreat Plains, high plains, High Plains, grassland, grasslands
- High Plainsshortgrass prairie, grassland, prairie dog, buffalo grass, wheat fields
small townsmetropolises
Large, densely populated cities
megacities · urban centers · metropolitan areas · megalopolises · cities
small townsfinancial centers
Cities of major banking
capital cities · commercial hubs · global cities · industrial centers · tech hubs
small townsurban areas
Developed, populated regions
metropolitan life · urban sprawl · downtown · inner cities · city life
small, downtown, smaller, smallest, uptown, towns, downsize, smallness, township