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mid⋅land

  [mid-luhnd]
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–noun
1. the middle or interior part of a country.
2. (initial capital letter) the dialect of English spoken in the central part of England.
3. (initial capital letter) the dialect of English spoken in the southern parts of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, and in West Virginia, Kentucky, and eastern Tennessee, and throughout the southern Appalachians.
–adjective
4. in or of the midland; inland.
5. (initial capital letter) of or pertaining to Midland.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME. See mid-, land
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Mid⋅land

  [mid-luhnd]
–noun
1. a city in W Texas. 70,525.
2. a city in central Michigan. 37,250.
3. a town in S Ontario, in S Canada, on Georgian Bay of Lake Huron. 12,132.

Mid⋅lands

  [mid-luhndz]
–plural noun
the central part of England; the midland counties.
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mid·land   (mĭd'lənd)   
n.  The middle or interior part of a country or region.
adj.  Of or in a midland.
Mid·land   (mĭd'lənd)   

  1. A city of central Michigan west of Bay City. Chemical industries are important to its economy. Population: 41,600.

  2. A city of west-central Texas west-southwest of Abilene. It is an industrial center in a cattle-ranching area. Population: 102,000.

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Word Origin & History

midland 
early 15c., mydlonde, first used of the Midlands of England.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Midland

town, Simcoe county, south-central Ontario, Canada. It is located on Midland Bay, an arm of Georgian Bay on Lake Huron. It was surveyed in 1872 and became a village in 1878 and a town in 1887. Midland has large harbour installations and grain elevators and is a customs port and a steamship terminal for the Georgian Bay resorts

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