Hypertext Webster Gateway: "midland"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Midland \Mid"land\, n.
The interior or central region of a country; -- usually in
the plural. --Drayton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Midland \Mid"land\, a.
1. Being in the interior country; distant from the coast or
seashore; as, midland towns or inhabitants. --Howell.
2. Surrounded by the land; mediterranean.
And on the midland sea the French had awed.
--Dryden.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
midland
adj : of or coming from the middle of a region or country;
"upcountry districts" [syn: {interior}, {upcountry}]
n 1: a town in west central Texas [syn: {Midland}]
2: the interior part of a country
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