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noun
adjective
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Also, Mid·west·ern. Middle Western.
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Midwest
1926, in U.S. geographical sense, from earlier Midwestern (1889) in ref. to a group of states originally listed as W.Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas.
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