单词 | Middletown |
释义 | Middletown /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.] |
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