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Middle East
[f. middle a. + east n.]
States lying between the Near and Far East, esp. Egypt and Iran and the countries between them. Also attrib.
The name Middle East has been used with considerable freedom: see esp. quot. 1958. Cf. Far East, Near East.
1902A. T. Mahan Retrospect & Prospect 237 The Middle East, if I may adopt a term which I have not seen, will some day need its Malta, as well as its Gibraltar. 1903V. Chirol Middle Eastern Question i. 5 ‘The Middle East’, that is to say..those regions of Asia which extend to the borders of India or command the approaches to India. 1913Q. Rev. Jan. 297 The interests of Great Britain and Russia in the Middle East..are in reality irreconcilable. 1925A. Toynbee Survey Internat. Affairs 1920–23 i. i. 3 The affairs of Turkey and the other countries of the Middle East. 1944J. S. Huxley On Living in Revolution i. 8 Organizations like the Middle East Supply Council. 1958Ld. Vansittart Mist Procession vi. 82 We had [in 1909] none of the sloppy modernism which lumps everything from the Mediterranean to Bengal as Middle East... Persia, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, India were the Middle East. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VI. 871/2 Middle East..has come to be applied to the lands around the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea, extending from Morocco to the Arabian Peninsula and Iran and sometimes beyond.
So Middle ˈEastern a., of or pertaining to the Middle East.
1903V. Chirol (title) The Middle Eastern question; or, some political problems of Indian defence. 1909A. Hamilton Probl. Middle East p. xi, No study of Middle Eastern politics can avoid encroaching upon those of the Near East and of the Far East. 1925A. Toynbee Survey Internat. Affairs 1920–23 i. ii. 10 The most important permanent results of this meeting of the Supreme Council in the Near and Middle Eastern field were [etc.]. 1966Listener 27 Oct. 600/1 Their children look at the world from a middle-eastern not a European standpoint. 1973A. Mann Tiara iii. 28 What was the rôle of the dark girl? Her first name was Middle Eastern, not Italian. |