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  midland

  noun

  the middle or interior part of a country.
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  Midland

  noun

  a city in W Texas.

midland

¹ American  

[mid-luhnd] / ˈmɪd lənd /

noun

1. the middle or interior part of a country.

2. (initial capital letter) the dialect of English spoken in the central part of England.

3. (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.

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adjective

1. in or of the midland; inland.

2. (initial capital letter) of or relating to Midland.

Midland ² American  

[mid-luhnd] / ˈmɪd lənd /

noun

1. a city in W Texas.

2. a city in central Michigan.

3. a town in S Ontario, in S Canada, on Georgian Bay of Lake Huron.

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midland British  

/ ˈmɪdlənd /

noun

1. 1. the central or inland part of a country

   2. ( as modifier )

      a midland region

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Etymology

Origin of midland

1400–50; late Middle English. See mid-, land

Example Sentences

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

These petty officers were called corporals, and Lewis was now promptly appointed corporal in the "Upland Regiment," far away from his native town, in one of the midland districts.

From Ludvig Holberg, The Founder of Norwegian Literature and an Oxford Student by Hammer, Simon Christian