midland

noun

1. The region of a country not near the borders; the interior.

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

adj

1. (not-comparable)Resembling or relating to the interior region of a country.
2. From or pertaining to the English Midlands.

   “In the more Midland counties, there are thirteen ; in Staffordshire (Wolverhampton), one; in Warwick (Birmingham), seven; in Nottingham, three; in Leicester, one; and Northampton, one.”

   “The obvious inference was that Midland culture found its centre in Lichfield, and that the only claim to distinction which the larger town could make was based on commercial grounds.”

   “His only visit to London had been that on which been touched by Queen Anne for the King's Evil and throughout his life he preserved a Midland accent in his speech.”

   “This stimulated sales and suited the needs of small manufacturers in the Midland city, who could not afford to trade on credit.”

3. Relating to the dialect of American English spoken in the Midwest known as Midland American English.

name

1. The loosely-defined region of the United States that is between the North and the South, where Midland American English is spoken.

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

2. (attributive)The English Midlands.

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

3. A suburb of Perth in the City of Swan, Western Australia.
4. A settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
5. A town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.
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23. (historical)A former railway company in England, the Midland Railway.

    “"... 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,..."”