midland
noun
the middle or interior part of a country.
midland
1 American
[mid-luhnd]
/ ˈmɪd lənd /
noun
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the middle or interior part of a country.
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(initial capital letter) the dialect of English spoken in the central part of England.
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(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.
adjective
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in or of the midland; inland.
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(initial capital letter) of or relating to Midland.
Midland
2
American
[mid-luhnd]
/ ˈmɪd lənd /
noun
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a city in W Texas.
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a city in central Michigan.
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a town in S Ontario, in S Canada, on Georgian Bay of Lake Huron.
midland
British
/ ˈmɪdlənd /
noun
Etymology
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Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
He sent mental messages down Dromord Hill and across the midland plain and across all the seas and the cities until at last the city of Stalowa Wola presented itself.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018
I loved Zola and the Brontës, all the seemingly faraway exotics on their dirty city blocks and midland heaths.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 5, 2016
It was a dinner meeting of America's board of directors, heavily from the midland where they grow things and make things.
From Time Magazine Archive
Comparatively, Cincinnati has drooped, many another midland city having shown a far greater rate of industrial growth in the last 50 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like other midland counties, its environments have never been without more manor houses and country gentlemen’s residences than is the case with the academic section of East Anglia.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)
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