Five Towns

British  

noun

1. the name given in his fiction by Arnold Bennett to the Potteries towns (actually six in number) of Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent, and Tunstall, now part of the city of Stoke-on-Trent

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Example Sentences

His draft stock rose considerably while playing for the Elev8 Baseball Academy in Delray Beach, Florida, this year after previously competing for his high school team, The Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 12, 2021

He's like an upper-middle-class kid from the Five Towns of Long Island.

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2020

A head-and-neck surgeon, he moved to New York, met Sondra, a nurse, whom he married, and settled with her in Lawrence, one of the Five Towns, on Long Island.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 29, 2019

The paintings were dark and caustic, but he had a knack for social networking dating back to his childhood in the Five Towns of Long Island, where one of his best friends was Donna Karan.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2019

Compare the realistic description of village life in Part I. of Tono Bungay with that of the Five Towns in Arnold Bennett's Old Wives' Tale, mentioned later.

From Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women by Benton, Caroline French