English
midland
see also: Midland
Noun

midland (plural midlands)

  1. The region of a country not near the borders; the interior.
    • 2007, Kye-hyŏng Pak, A Life (ISBN 1905886152), page 166:
      The City of Daejeon: the capital of Choongnam Province in the midland of Korea, now it is expanded to be a Metropolitan City.
Adjective

midland (not comparable)

  1. Resembling or relating to the interior region of a country.
Midland
Pronunciation
  • (proper noun) IPA: /ˈmɪdlənd/
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.
    • 2006, Thomas Edward Murray, Beth Lee Simon, Language Variation and Change in the American Midland: A New Look (ISBN 9027248966)
    • 2011, William Labov, Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 3 (ISBN 144435146X):
      Throughout the Midland and the South, the nucleus of /aw/ is well front of center, [...]
  2. (chiefly, attributive) The English Midlands.
    • 1912, Walter William Skeat, English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day:
      [...] the difficult Southern English found in the Kentish Ayenbite of Inwyt, or even from the Midland of Chaucer's poems.
    • 1961, Pronunciation of English in the United States, pages 110 and 175:
      The striking positional variants [...] of Virginia are probably an American innovation, since this feature is not found in Standard British English or the folk speech of the Midland and the south of England, though northern England and Scotland have it to some extent.
      It is worth noting that only two instances of the pronunciation /jɛst/, riming with guest, have been recorded in the New England settlement area (one near Boston, the other near Buffalo), a pronunciation widely used in the English Midland along with /jɪst/, riming with fist. These are the normal derivatives of OE gist, gest...
  3. A suburb in Perth, Western Australia.
  4. A settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
  5. A town in Simcoe County, Ontario.
  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.
  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/county seat in 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/county seat in Midland County, Texas.
  21. An unincorporated community/and/CDP in Fauquier County, Virginia.
  22. A census-designated place in Pierce County, Washington.
  23. (rail, historical) A former railway company in England, the Midland Railway.
    • 1891, Report ↗ ... Together with the Proceedings of the [Great British Parliament's Joint Select] Committee [on Railway Rates and Charges], Minutes, Mr. Bidder, in Mr. George Henry Turner is re-called, line 1643, line 15551:
      "... 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,..."
    Synonyms: MR
Adjective

midland

  1. From or pertaining to the English Midlands.
  2. Relating to the dialect of American English spoken in the Midwest known as Midland American English.


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