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

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

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

To whom the men of Kent are afterwards subjected, and also the provinces of Surrey and Sussex, that is, the midland and southern Angles.

From Old English Chronicles by Various