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Mid⋅dle⋅town

[mid-l-toun]
–noun
1. a township in E New Jersey. 62,574.
2. a city in SW Ohio, on the Miami River. 43,719.
3. a city in central Connecticut, on the Connecticut River. 39,040.
4. a city in SE New York. 21,454.
5. a town in SE Rhode Island. 17,216.
6. a town in E Pennsylvania. 10,122.

Mid⋅dle⋅town

[mid-l-toun]
–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.


Mid⋅dle⋅town⋅er, noun
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Mid·dle·town   (mĭd'l-toun')   
  1. A city of central Connecticut on the Connecticut River south of Hartford. It is the seat of Wesleyan University (chartered 1831). Population: 47,500.

  2. A community of eastern New Jersey northwest of Red Bank. It was settled in 1665. Population: 67,600.

  3. A city of southwest Ohio northeast of Cincinnati. Founded in 1802, it has a steel industry. Population: 51,300.

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Middletown 
"typical U.S. middle class community," 1929.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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