Middle American

British  

adjective

1. of or relating to the territories between the US and South America or their inhabitants

2. of or relating to the US middle class, esp those groups that are politically conservative

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noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Middle America

2. a member of the US middle class

Example Sentences

The story centers on Alice, an ordinary Middle American girl who begins to suffer from a mental disorder while enrolled at the University of Oklahoma.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

“It wasn’t that easy,” says Estrada-Belli, a professor at Tulane University’s Middle American Research Institute and an expert in the Preclassic and Classic Maya periods.

From National Geographic • Jan. 26, 2024

One failed pilot was about “a dad making observations about Middle American midlife livin.’

From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2022

“American Delirium,” by the Argentine author González, takes place in a Middle American town in the not-so-distant future, also troubled by political turmoil and a natural world gone haywire.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2021

However, the skulls of Syrrhophus and Tomodactylus show departures from the pattern observed in the Middle American Eleutherodactylus, as well as many of those species in western South America.

From A Taxonomic Revision of the Leptodactylid Frog Genus Syrrhophus Cope by Lynch, John D.