MIDDLETOWN


Meaning of MIDDLETOWN in English

/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. ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .