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

He was soon baking for the Five Towns Woman’s Exchange and by 16 had hired his first employee, a classmate from home economics.

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2023

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

The house was large, with plenty of ground; the boundary wall secured that privacy which young husbands and young wives instinctively demand; the outlook was unlimited, the air the purest in the Five Towns.

From Anna of the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold