English

Proper noun

Midland

1. A town in Maryland
2. A city in Michigan
3. A town in North Carolina
4. A village in Ohio
5. A town in Ontario, Canada
6. A borough in Pennsylvania
7. A city in Texas
8. A census-designated place in Virginia
9. A census-designated place in Washington

Adjective

Midland ‎(comparative more Midland, superlative most Midland)

1. From or pertaining to the Midlands.
   • 1854, Report from the Select Committee on Conveyance of Mails by Railways, page 153:

     The second has a branch to Birmingham from Rugby, but the main use of it is to proceed over this very Midland line ; it turns off at Rugby, and goes by way of Leicester to Derby, and so on to the North.

   • 1908, “Report of the Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-Minded”, in (Please provide the title of the work), page 88:

     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.

   • 1923, “The Old Book Trade in Birmingham”, in The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record, page 235:

     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.

   • 1930, Victoria Roberts, Eighteenth Century Gentlemen, ISBN 0521061008, page 73:

     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.

   • 2004, Kenneth Morgan, Bristol and the Atlantic Trade in the Eighteenth Century, ISBN 0521893674, page 109:

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

English

Noun

midland ‎(plural midlands)

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

Adjective

midland

1. Resembling or relating to the interior region of a country.

Usage notes

• There are several towns named Midland.