MIDDLE WEST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does middle west mean? 

• MIDDLE WEST (noun)
  The noun MIDDLE WEST has 1 sense:

1. the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America)

  Familiarity information: MIDDLE WEST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIDDLE WEST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

middle west; Midwest; midwestern United States

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (parts of "middle west"):

Rustbelt (urban areas in New England and Midwest characterized by concentrations of declining industries (steel or textiles))

IL; Ill.; Illinois; Land of Lincoln; Prairie State (a midwestern state in north-central United States)

Hoosier State; IN; Ind.; Indiana; Hawkeye State; IA; Ia.; Iowa; Kan.; Kansas; KS; Sunflower State (a state in midwestern United States)

Great Lakes State; MI; Mich.; Michigan; Wolverine State (a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region)

Gopher State; Minn.; Minnesota; MN; North Star State (a midwestern state)

Missouri; MO; Mo.; Show Me State (a midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union)

Cornhusker State; NE; Neb.; Nebraska (a midwestern state on the Great Plains)

Buckeye State; OH; Ohio (a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region)

Badger State; WI; Wis.; Wisc.; Wisconsin (a midwestern state in north central United States)

Holonyms ("middle west" is a part of...):

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

 Context examples 

That's my middle west—not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns but the thrilling, returning trains of my youth and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)