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

Kominsky-Crumb was born on Long Island, in the suburb of Five Towns.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2022

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

Cohen was raised in the village of Lawrence, in the Five Towns section of Long Island, in the shadow of John F Kennedy airport.

From The Guardian • May 26, 2018

But neither she nor anyone in the Five Towns or elsewhere ever heard of Willie Price again.

From Anna of the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold