Definitions for Midlands

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Midlands Mid·lands

Spelling: [mid-luh ndz]

IPA: /ˈmɪd ləndz/

Midlands is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 276 anagrams from letters in Midlands (addilmns).

Definitions for Midlands

noun

1. the middle or interior part of a country.
2. (initial capital letter) the dialect of English spoken in the central part of England.
3. (initial capital letter) 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.
4. a city in W Texas.
5. a city in central Michigan.
6. a town in S Ontario, in S Canada, on Georgian Bay of Lake Huron.

adjective

1. in or of the midland; inland.
2. (initial capital letter) of or relating to Midland.

plural noun

1. the central part of England; the midland counties.

Origin of Midlands

1400-50; late Middle English. See mid-, land

Examples for Midlands

He does not pretend to carry his experience of the Gipsies further than the Midlands.

He come after me and followed me up all through the Midlands.

Some little village in the Midlands probably, where Hamlet would be appreciated.

You have, sire, as I have heard, many friends at Bristol and in the Midlands.

Large numbers of Danes landed on our eastern coasts and ravaged the Midlands.

As for him, he changed his parish and runs one somewhere in the Midlands.

It seems to have spread itself over Suffolk as well as the Midlands.

We may be, for our branch of the family comes from the Midlands.

A bit of ploughed field in the Midlands gives me more pleasure.'

This, from an Englishman born and bred in the Midlands, is praise indeed.