midland

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: Mid=land

CIDE DICTIONARY

midland, a. 

•  Being in the interior country; distant from the coast or seashore; as, midland towns or inhabitants.  Howell.  [1913 Webster]
•  Surrounded by the land; mediterranean.  [1913 Webster]

  "And on the midland sea the French had awed."  [1913 Webster]

midland, n. 

 The interior or central region of a country; -- usually in the plural.  Drayton.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

midland, n. & adj.
--n.
1 (the Midlands) the inland counties of central England.
2 the middle part of a country.
--adj.
1 of or in the midland or Midlands.
2 Mediterranean.

Derivative

midlander n.

THESAURUS

midland

amidships, average, central, core, equatorial, equidistant, halfway, heartland, hinterland, inland, inlands, inshore, interior, intermediary, intermediate, mean, medial, median, mediocre, mediterranean, medium, mesial, mezzo, mid, middle, middlemost, middling, midlands, midmost, midships, midway, nuclear, up-country

ROGET THESAURUS

midland

Land

N land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma, continent, mainland, peninsula, chersonese, delta, tongue of land, neck of land, isthmus, oasis, promontory, highland, coast, shore, scar, strand, beach, playa, bank, lea, seaboard, seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach, ironbound coast, loom of the land, derelict, innings, alluvium, alluvion, ancon, riverbank, river bank, levee, soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge, chalk, gravel, mold, subsoil, clod, clot, rock, crag, acres, real estate, landsman, earthy, continental, midland, coastal, littoral, riparian, alluvial, terrene, landed, predial, territorial, geophilous, ripicolous, ashore, on shore, on land.