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单词 midwestern
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Midwesternadj.

Brit. /ˌmɪdˈwɛst(ə)n/, U.S. /ˌmɪdˈwɛstərn/
Forms: 1800s– mid-Western, 1900s– Mid-Western, 1900s– Midwestern, 1900s– mid-western, 1900s– midwestern.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mid adj., western adj.
Etymology: < mid adj. + western adj. Compare earlier Middle Western adj. and slightly later Midwest n. and adj.
Situated in the American Midwest; of, relating to, or belonging to the Midwest.
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Middle Western1797
Middle American1851
Midwestern1886
Midwest1905
Mid-American1906
1886 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 64 With the exception of New York and Pennsylvania, the older Eastern States have not gone in for tenant-farming to anything like the same extent as the settled mid-Western States.
1905 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 11 402 The pages of Lakeside, with their portrayal of mid-western character, proved to be one source of satisfaction for a widespread desire to read the literature of locality.
1923 Collier's 25 Aug. 24/3 One of the economic causes of Mid-Western discontent is the feeling that the Mid-West is the object of discrimination.
1946 Harper's Mag. Dec. 482/2 Midwestern humor is nervous and hyperbolic.
1972 M. J. Bosse Incident at Naha ii. 93 You can never wholly shed a Midwestern background.
1988 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 17 July 21/8 The massive water reserves of the Great Lakes have become the focus of an unseemly power battle between rival Mid-Western states.
1999 Forbes 22 Feb. 142/3 Our midwestern attorney put each grandchild's $100,000 gift in his wife's name.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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