Middletown

¹ American  

[mid-l-taun] / ˈmɪd lˌtaʊn /

noun

(sometimes lowercase)

1. a typical American town or small city with traditional values and mores.

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Middletown ² American  

[mid-l-taun] / ˈmɪd lˌtaʊn /

noun

1. a township in E New Jersey.

2. a city in SW Ohio, on the Miami River.

3. a city in central Connecticut, on the Connecticut River.

4. a city in SE New York.

5. a town in SE Rhode Island.

6. a town in E Pennsylvania.

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Other Word Forms

• Middletowner
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of Middletown

After 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.

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Example Sentences

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Middletown

Although Van Zandt has long held a home in New York City, the radio host also has strong ties to New Jersey, where there’s a street named in his honor in his hometown of Middletown.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

“They ran so thick in the rivers, you didn’t even need a pole,” said Simon, now chair of the Middletown Rancheria of Pomo Indians.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Vance gave a speech at the steel plant where his grandfather worked for 40 years in Middletown, Ohio, the blue-collar town which featured in his bestselling 2016 memoir "Hillbilly Elegy."

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

In the spring of 2021, a 25-year-old man was summoned to help a friend in a confrontation at a low-income housing development in Middletown, Connecticut.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026

Halliday appeared to have copied the code for Happytime Pizza from his Middletown simulation and hidden a duplicate of it here in the Archaide museum.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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