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

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

One thought instinctively of the grimiest parts of Lancashire and the Five Towns.

From Pushed and the Return Push by Nichols, George Herbert Fosdike