maidan

Definitions

1. A marketplace or other open space in or by a city or town; an esplanade.
   South-Asia
2. Independence Square, the main city square in Kyiv, Ukraine.
3. Ellipsis of Maidan Shahr: the capital of Maidan Wardak province, Afghanistan.
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4. 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.
5. Ellipsis of Maidan Wardak: a province of Afghanistan.
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6. Ellipsis of Euromaidan, the protests in Ukraine in 2014.
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Equivalents

Examples

“Inland, the prospect alters. There is an oval maidan, and a long sallow hospital.”

“Below on the amorphous brown-violet meidan by the railway station […].”

“M. Crawford a gallop on the green maidan”

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