Middletown
1[ mid-l-toun ]
/ ˈmɪd lˌtaʊn /
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noun (sometimes lowercase)
a typical American town or small city with traditional values and mores.
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Origin of Middletown
1After a pseudonymously named town studied in a book with the same title (1929) by U.S. sociologists Robert S. Lynd (1892–1970) and Helen Merrell Lynd (1896–1982); the town actually studied was Muncie, Ind.
OTHER WORDS FROM Middletown
Mid·dle·town·er, nounWords nearby Middletown
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Other definitions for Middletown (2 of 2)
Middletown2
[ mid-l-toun ]
/ ˈmɪd lˌtaʊn /
noun
a township in E New Jersey.
a city in SW Ohio, on the Miami River.
a city in central Connecticut, on the Connecticut River.
a city in SE New York.
a town in SE Rhode Island.
a town in E Pennsylvania.
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