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small:

The noun small has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (1) small -- (the slender part of the back)
2. small -- (a garment size for a small person)

The adj small has 10 senses (first 7 from tagged texts)

1. (213) small, little -- (limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group")
2. (13) minor, modest, small, small-scale, pocket-size, pocket-sized -- (limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country")
3. (8) little, small -- ((of children and animals) young, immature; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children")
4. (0) small -- (slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope; "a series of death struggles with small time in between")
5. (1) humble, low, lowly, modest, small -- (low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings")
6. (1) little, minuscule, small -- (lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters")
7. (1) little, small -- ((of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice")
8. small -- (have fine or very small constituent particles; "a small misty rain")
9. modest, small -- (not large but sufficient in size or amount; "a modest salary"; "modest inflation"; "helped in my own small way")
10. belittled, diminished, small -- (made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth); "her comments made me feel small")

The adv small has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)

1. small -- (on a small scale; "think small")

town:

The noun town has 4 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)

1. (67) town -- (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city; "they drive through town on their way to work")
2. (8) town, townspeople, townsfolk -- (the people living in a municipality smaller than a city; "the whole town cheered the team")
3. (4) township, town -- (an administrative division of a county; "the town is responsible for snow removal")
4. Town, Ithiel Town -- (United States architect who was noted for his design and construction of truss bridges (1784-1844))

environmental:

The adj environmental has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (1) environmental -- (of or relating to the external conditions or surroundings; "environmental factors")
2. environmental -- (concerned with the ecological effects of altering the environment; "environmental pollution")

development:

The noun development has 9 senses (first 7 from tagged texts)

1. (52) development -- (act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining; "he congratulated them on their development of a plan to meet the emergency"; "they funded research and development")
2. (46) development, evolution -- (a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage); "the development of his ideas took many years"; "the evolution of Greek civilization"; "the slow development of her skill as a writer")
3. (11) growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis -- ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children")
4. (9) development -- (a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation; "recent developments in Iraq"; "what a revolting development!")
5. (7) exploitation, development -- (the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful; "the development of Alaskan resources"; "the exploitation of copper deposits")
6. (6) development -- (a district that has been developed to serve some purpose; "such land is practical for small park developments")
7. (4) development -- (a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess); "after he saw the latest development he changed his mind and became a supporter"; "in chess your should take care of your development before moving your queen")
8. development, developing -- (processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible; "the development and printing of his pictures took only two hours")
9. development -- ((music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated)

small town environmental development