midland
the middle or interior part of a country.
(initial capital letter) the dialect of English spoken in the central part of England.
(initial capital letter) the dialect of English spoken in the southern parts of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, and in West Virginia, Kentucky, and eastern Tennessee, and throughout the southern Appalachians.
in or of the midland; inland.
(initial capital letter) of or relating to Midland.
Origin of midland
1Words Nearby midland
Other definitions for Midland (2 of 2)
a city in W Texas.
a city in central Michigan.
a town in S Ontario, in S Canada, on Georgian Bay of Lake Huron.
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How to use midland in a sentence
Schigut, who has family in Hood County, was teaching in midland, Texas, five years ago when the principal of STEAM Academy at Mambrino in Granbury reached out to her about an opening at its campus.
A Push to Remove LGBTQ Books in One County Could Signal Rising Partisanship on School Boards | by Jeremy Schwartz, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune | February 7, 2022 | ProPublicaTom Craddick said in a statement that his business interests reflect the fact that he lives in midland, the center of the state’s oil and gas industry.
Texas’s chief energy regulator fiercely defended fossil fuels after historic blackouts. She also profits from oil and gas. | Neena Satija, Aaron Gregg | March 19, 2021 | Washington PostAll the locals who came to a midland Park, New Jersey hearing on the building of a mosque were against.
The little town of midland Park is a middle-class suburb of New York City, just north of my hometown of Paramus.
However, every single resident of midland Park who testified voiced opposition to the mosque.
Al Ramic panicked as he soon as he turned onto Nugent Street from midland Avenue.
‘It Was Like a War Zone’: Hurricane-Ravaged Staten Island Reels | Paula Szuchman | November 3, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTHe lived in a tiny bungalow at 787 Nugent in the midland Beach section of town.
‘It Was Like a War Zone’: Hurricane-Ravaged Staten Island Reels | Paula Szuchman | November 3, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTHe remained with the midland until 1897, when he retired on superannuation at the age of seventy-six.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowEighteen hundred and fifty-one was a period of anxiety to the midland and to railway companies generally.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowFinancial depression had succeeded a time of wild excitement, and the midland dividend had fallen from seven to two per cent.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowHis nature was bold and fitted to command, and to him is due, in a large degree, the proud position the midland holds to-day.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowThere was another personality that loomed large, in those years, on the midland—Samuel Swarbrick, the accountant.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph Tatlow
British Dictionary definitions for midland
/ (ˈmɪdlənd) /
the central or inland part of a country
(as modifier): a midland region
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