Middletown

¹ American  

[mid-l-toun] / ˈmɪd lˌtaʊn /

noun

(sometimes lowercase)

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

---

Middletown ² American  

[mid-l-toun] / 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.

---

Other Word Forms

• Middletowner noun

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.

Example Sentences

He told me that when he was growing up in Middletown, Ohio, his family didn’t own a car, a TV set or a telephone for much of his childhood.

From The Wall Street Journal

He said that in Manhattan, when he was a champion Knick, people followed him down the street clamoring for his signature: “I never felt like a New Yorker. I was still from Middletown.”

From The Wall Street Journal

In Middletown, businessman Justin Hoak, 37, said Constellation, which plans to restart the reactor in 2027, had already contacted him.

From The Wall Street Journal

Middletown, a quiet borough of about 9,500 people, sits on the Susquehanna River roughly 10 miles southeast of Harrisburg, the Pennsylvania capital.

From The Wall Street Journal

It was then that Middletown burst onto television screens worldwide and became synonymous with “Three Mile Island.”

From The Wall Street Journal