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midland¹

Where it comes from

From Middle English mydlonde, equivalent to mid- + land.

noun midlands

  1. The region of a country not near the borders; the interior. The City of Daejeon: the capital of Choongnam Province in the midland of Korea, now it is expanded to be a Metropolitan City.

adjective

  1. not comparable Resembling or relating to the interior region of a country.

Midland²

  • /ˈmɪdlənd/

Where it comes from

From Middle English mydlonde, equivalent to mid- + land.

proper noun

  1. The loosely-defined region of the United States that is between the North and the South, where Midland American English is spoken. Throughout the Midland and the South, the nucleus of /aw/ is well front of center, [...]
  2. attributive The English Midlands. [...] the difficult Southern English found in the Kentish Ayenbite of Inwyt, or even from the Midland of Chaucer's poems.
  3. A suburb of Perth in the City of Swan, Western Australia.
  4. A settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
  5. A town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.
  6. A town in Sebastian County, Arkansas.
  7. A ghost town in Riverside County, California.
  8. An unincorporated community in Muscogee County, Georgia.
  9. An unincorporated community in Wright Township, Greene County, Indiana, United States.
  10. An unincorporated community in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.
  11. An unincorporated community in Acadia Parish, Louisiana.
  12. A town in Allegany County, Maryland.
  13. A city, the county seat of Midland County, Michigan.
  14. An unincorporated community in Crawford County, Missouri.
  15. A town in Cabarrus County, North Carolina.
  16. A village in Clinton County, Ohio.
  17. A borough in Beaver County, Pennsylvania.
  18. A rural small town in Haakon County, South Dakota.
  19. An unincorporated community in Rutherford County, Tennessee.
  20. A city, the county seat of Midland County, Texas.
  21. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Fauquier County, Virginia.
  22. A census-designated place in Pierce County, Washington.
  23. historical A former railway company in England, the Midland Railway. "... the case of the Midland and the case of the Great Eastern" (his Lordship had been referring to the reasons for special scales). "The case of the Midland we found to be very peculiar, because, unlike most of the other railway companies,..."

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adjective more Midland · most Midland

  1. From or pertaining to the English Midlands. In the more Midland counties, there are thirteen ; in Staffordshire (Wolverhampton), one; in Warwick (Birmingham), seven; in Nottingham, three; in Leicester, one; and Northampton, one.
  2. Relating to the dialect of American English spoken in the Midwest known as Midland American English.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: inland, interior, upcountry, upington, odessa, central, archer, middle, medial, median, heartland, hinterland, upland, midsection, inner, centric

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Chicago

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@misc{midland_2026,
  title = {midland},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/midland},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}