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mid•land



Pronunciation: (mid'lund), [key]
—n.
1. the middle or interior part of a country.
2. (cap.) the dialect of English spoken in the central part of England.
3. (cap.) 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.

—adj.
1. in or of the midland; inland.
2. (cap.) of or pertaining to Midland.

Mid•land



Pronunciation: (mid'lund), [key]
—n.
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.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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