Middletown
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Middletown
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noun ( sometimes lowercase )
a typical American town or small city with traditional values and mores.
Origin:
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.
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 forms
Mid·dle·town·er, noun
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Middletown
"typical U.S. middle class community," 1929.
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