maidan
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
maidan (plural maidans)
- (chiefly, South Asia) A marketplace or other open space in or by a city or town; an esplanade. [from 16th c.]
- 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 5:
- Inland, the prospect alters. There is an oval maidan, and a long sallow hospital.
- 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine, Faber, page 84:
- Below on the amorphous brown-violet meidan by the railway station […].
- M. Crawford
- a gallop on the green maidan
- 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 5:
- Spanish: meidán
maidan
- Independence Square, the main city square in Kiev, Ukraine. [from 1993]
- The Orange Revolution protests that took place in Kiev’s Maidan in 2004–05; the Euromaidan protests of 2013–14; the protest movement associated with the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution.
- anti-maidan, antiMaidan
- AutoMaidan
- Euromaidan, EuroMaidan
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