MIDLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Midland mean? 

• MIDLAND (noun)
  The noun MIDLAND has 2 senses:

1. a town in west central Texas

2. the interior part of a country

  Familiarity information: MIDLAND used as a noun is rare.

• MIDLAND (adjective)
  The adjective MIDLAND has 1 sense:

1. of or coming from the middle of a region or country

  Familiarity information: MIDLAND used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIDLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A town in west central Texas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Midland" is a part of...):

Lone-Star State; Tex.; Texas; TX (the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The interior part of a country

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("midland" is a kind of...):

inside; interior (the region that is inside of something)

Holonyms ("midland" is a part of...):

country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)

• MIDLAND (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or coming from the middle of a region or country

Synonyms:

interior; midland; upcountry

Context example:

upcountry districts

Similar:

inland (situated away from an area's coast or border)

 Context examples 

The names of the occupants were painted at the bottom on the wall, but there was no such name as the Franco-Midland Hardware Company, Limited.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He is in the Midland Electrical Company, at Coventry.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From the well-known names of these towns I learn in what county I have lighted; a north-midland shire, dusk with moorland, ridged with mountain: this I see.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Amid the dark streets and brick houses there was something out of place in their appearance, as when the sea-gulls, driven by stress of weather, are seen in the Midland shires.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Charming as were all Mrs. Radcliffe's works, and charming even as were the works of all her imitators, it was not in them perhaps that human nature, at least in the Midland counties of England, was to be looked for.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Kindly write upon it “I am perfectly willing to act as business manager to the Franco-Midland Hardware Company, Limited, at a minimum salary of £500.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had set out from Whitcross on a Tuesday afternoon, and early on the succeeding Thursday morning the coach stopped to water the horses at a wayside inn, situated in the midst of scenery whose green hedges and large fields and low pastoral hills (how mild of feature and verdant of hue compared with the stern North- Midland moors of Morton!) met my eye like the lineaments of a once familiar face.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A coat and waistcoat were lying on the floor, and from a hook behind the door, with his own braces round his neck, was hanging the managing director of the Franco-Midland Hardware Company.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I think that you will agree with me that an interview with Mr. Arthur Harry Pinner in the temporary offices of the Franco-Midland Hardware Company, Limited, would be a rather interesting experience for both of us.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By that day you will be the business manager of the Franco-Midland Hardware Company, Limited, with a hundred and thirty-four branches in the towns and villages of France, not counting one in Brussels and one in San Remo.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)