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midland
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun midland has 2 senses
- midland(n = noun.location) Array - a town in west central Texas; Array is a kind of town
- midland(n = noun.location) Array - the interior part of a country; Array is a part of country, land, state
is a part of lone-star state, texas, tx
is a kind of inside, interior
Adjective midland has 1 sense
- midland(s = adj.all) interior, upcountry - of or coming from the middle of a region or country; "upcountry districts"
CIDE DICTIONARY
midland, a.
- Being in the interior country; distant from the coast or seashore; as, midland towns or inhabitants. Howell. [1913 Webster]
- Surrounded by the land; mediterranean. [1913 Webster]"And on the midland sea the French had awed." [1913 Webster]
midland, n.
The interior or central region of a country; -- usually in the plural. Drayton. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
midland, n. & adj.
--n.
1 (the Midlands) the inland counties of central England.
2 the middle part of a country.
--adj.
1 of or in the midland or Midlands.
2 Mediterranean.
--n.
1 (the Midlands) the inland counties of central England.
2 the middle part of a country.
--adj.
1 of or in the midland or Midlands.
2 Mediterranean.
Derivative
midlander n.
THESAURUS
midland
amidships, average, central, core, equatorial, equidistant, halfway, heartland, hinterland, inland, inlands, inshore, interior, intermediary, intermediate, mean, medial, median, mediocre, mediterranean, medium, mesial, mezzo, mid, middle, middlemost, middling, midlands, midmost, midships, midway, nuclear, up-countryROGET THESAURUS
midland
Land
N land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma, continent, mainland, peninsula, chersonese, delta, tongue of land, neck of land, isthmus, oasis, promontory, highland, coast, shore, scar, strand, beach, playa, bank, lea, seaboard, seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach, ironbound coast, loom of the land, derelict, innings, alluvium, alluvion, ancon, riverbank, river bank, levee, soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge, chalk, gravel, mold, subsoil, clod, clot, rock, crag, acres, real estate, landsman, earthy, continental, midland, coastal, littoral, riparian, alluvial, terrene, landed, predial, territorial, geophilous, ripicolous, ashore, on shore, on land.
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