/mid"l town'/ , n.
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.
— Middletowner , n.
/mid"l town'/ , n. ( sometimes l.c. )
a typical American town or small city with traditional values and mores.
[ 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. ]