Meaning of Midland | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The loosely-defined region of the United States that is between the North and the South, where Midland American English is spoken.
2. The region of a country not near the borders; the interior.
3. The English Midlands.
   attributive
4. A suburb of Perth in the City of Swan, Western Australia.
5. A settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
6. A town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.
7. A number of places in the United States:
8. A town in Sebastian County, Arkansas.
9. A ghost town in Riverside County, California.
10. An unincorporated community in Muscogee County, Georgia.
11. An unincorporated community in Wright Township, Greene County, Indiana, United States.
12. An unincorporated community in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.
13. An unincorporated community in Acadia Parish, Louisiana.
14. A town in Allegany County, Maryland.
15. A city, the county seat of Midland County, Michigan.
16. An unincorporated community in Crawford County, Missouri.
17. A town in Cabarrus County, North Carolina.
18. A village in Clinton County, Ohio.
19. A borough in Beaver County, Pennsylvania.
20. A rural small town in Haakon County, South Dakota.
21. An unincorporated community in Rutherford County, Tennessee.
22. A city, the county seat of Midland County, Texas.
23. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Fauquier County, Virginia.
24. A census-designated place in Pierce County, Washington.
25. A former railway company in England, the Midland Railway.
    historical

Equivalents

Examples

“The City of Daejeon: the capital of Choongnam Province in the midland of Korea, now it is expanded to be a Metropolitan City.”

“Throughout the Midland and the South, the nucleus of /aw/ is well front of center, [...]”

“[...] the difficult Southern English found in the Kentish Ayenbite of Inwyt, or even from the Midland of Chaucer's poems.”

“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...”

“"... 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,..."”

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