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Middletown

1
[mid-l-toun]
noun (sometimes lowercase)
  1. a typical American town or small city with traditional values and mores.

Origin of Middletown

1
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.
Related formsMid·dle·town·er, noun

Middletown

2
[mid-l-toun]
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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Contemporary Examples of middletown

Historical Examples of middletown

  • He was killed by a bullet from the gun of a sharpshooter in Middletown.

  • Behind him, through the wood, on toward Middletown rumbled the passing battery.

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    Mary Johnston

  • There's a wood road over there that cuts off a deal of distance to Middletown.

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    Mary Johnston

  • Five minutes later they reached the pike, south of Middletown.

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  • The Valley pike, in the region of Middletown, proved a cumbered path.

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Word Origin and History for middletown

Middletown

"typical U.S. middle class community," 1929. The U.S. Geological Survey lists 40 towns by that name, not counting variant spellings.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper