Middle Americanadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌmɪdl əˈmɛrᵻk(ə)n/, U.S.

/ˈˌmɪd(ə)l əˈmɛr(ə)k(ə)n/

Forms: also with lower-case initial(s).

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: middle adj., American adj.

Etymology: < middle adj. + American adj. Compare earlier Middle America n.

A. adj.

a. Of or relating to the middle part of the U.S., esp. the Midwest.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [adjective] > U.S.A. > Western States > mid-west

Middle Western1797

Middle American1851

Midwestern1886

Midwest1905

Mid-American1906

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xlii. 213 The unread, unsophisticated Protestant of the Middle American States.

1910 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 40 531 If our point of view is correct, we might expect to find a gradual decrease of the typical middle American elements [of culture] as we go northward and southward.

1992 Ebony May 80/3 Kentucky is a middle American state where visitors can learn a bit of Black history while having fun during the world-famous Kentucky Derby.

b. Of or relating to the geographical region of Middle America (Middle America n. 1).

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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > Central and South America > [adjective] > Central America

Central American1824

Sonoran1857

Mid-American1859

Middle American1910

Mesoamerican1948

1910 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 40 532 It is easy to show that the Iroquois have absorbed or retained many aspects of Middle American culture:..some of their inventions, like the blow-gun, connect them directly with the tribes of the Gulf of Mexico and of South America.

1918 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 15 698 A Northern (or Canadian), a Western (or Pacific Coast), and a Middle American (or Mexican-Antillean) Association.

1926 F. F. Blom Tribes & Temples I. i. 4 There are maps of most of the Middle American countries, and the greater number of them..are remarkably inaccurate.

1961 W. Brandon Indians 52/2 There are the resemblances between Asiatic parcheesi (pachisi) and the Middle American game of patolli.

1970 Man 5 286 Middle American Indian cultures tend to have agnatic groupings.

1996 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 93 3771/1 Large earthquakes along the Middle American subduction zone.

2. Of or relating to Middle America (Middle America n. 3) as a social class.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [adjective] > specific

Mayflower1921

Waspish1968

Waspy1968

Middle American1969

1969 Collier's Encycl. Year Bk. 3 Her [sc. Mrs Richard Nixon's] looks and taste are classic Middle American, even as her husband's are.

1971 Newsweek 29 Nov. 52/1 Archie Bunker, the middle American hero of ‘All in the Family’..sees himself menaced by a rising tide of spades,..meat~heads,..fags and four-eyes.

1996 Q. Troupe Avalanche i. 53 What we see there, square dancing in front of us, are xeroxed copies of middle-american porkers, who are copies of other copies.

1997 L. Carcaterra Apaches i. i. 13 Middle-American fantasies of touch football games in the yard, camping trips in the summer, or boisterous talks around a dinner table.

B. n.

1. A member of Middle America (Middle America n. 3) as a social class.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > collectively > specific > one of

Middle American1907

1907 J. Jacobs in Amer. Mag. Mar. 522/1 Who is the typical American?.. He is Samuel Thwaites Raggers, and I call him ‘The Middle American’.

1919 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. vi. ii. 185 This highly virile and defiant dialect and not the fossilized English of the school-marm and her books, is the speech of the Middle American of Joseph Jacobs' composite—the mill-hand in a small city of Indiana.

1970 Time 5 Jan. 9 Who precisely are the Middle Americans?.. They make up the core of the group that Richard Nixon now invokes as the ‘forgotten Americans’ or ‘the Great Silent Majority’.

1973 H. L. Nieburg Culture Storm i. 2 No longer the exclusive province of the intellectual, the moral decrepitude of the nation is taken for granted even by the plastic middle Americans.

1975 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 28/1 The phrase ‘Middle American’ was first used..by Joseph Kraft in the spring of 1968, when he was writing about the municipal workers in New York City... He specifically referred to their ethnic character: Irish policemen, Italian sanitation workers, Jewish school-teachers, and so on.

1989 B. Ehrenreich Fear of Falling iii. 102 The Middle Americans that the media discovered were..a far larger category than the blue-collar working class... To get away from the no-longer-newsworthy blacks, hippies, radicals, and poor people, most media analysts were content to define Middle Americans as almost anybody but the members of those disturbing groups.

2. A native or inhabitant of Middle America (Middle America n. 1) as a geographical region.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > parts of

New Englander1637

bayman1641

New English1647

Novangle1650

Novanglian1752

Yankee1765

cracker1766

Yank?1778

bushwhacker1809

tuckahoe1816

southerner1817

Yengees1819

muskrat1823

blue belly1827

half horse and half alligator1828

Southron1828

northerner1831

westerner1835

Northman1836

Easterner1838

Far-Wester1843

southwesterner1845

western1846

sand-hiller1848

Vineyarder1851

mountain boomer1859

Far Westerner1862

blue-nosed Yankee1866

Appalachian1888

sloper1892

Ozarkian1893

rebel1895

reb1897

Middle Westerner1899

hillbilly1900

Midwesterner1916

Ozarker1920

Geechee1926

Middle American1944

upstater1944

Mid-American1959

1944 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 29 386 The main problem to be solved [concerning Central America], that of securing the goodwill of these Middle Americans, is not enlarged upon.

1971 Internat. Organization 25 192 Middle Americans participated in the settlement of disputes in their area and in South America, and the South Americans participated in the settlement of disputes in their area and in Middle America. The local centers—Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico—accounted for much of their respective subsystem's participation.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	middle american
释义	Middle Americanadj.n. Brit. /ˌmɪdl əˈmɛrᵻk(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈˌmɪd(ə)l əˈmɛr(ə)k(ə)n/ Forms: also with lower-case initial(s). Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: middle adj., American adj. Etymology: < middle adj. + American adj. Compare earlier Middle America n. A. adj. 1. a. Of or relating to the middle part of the U.S., esp. the Midwest. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [adjective] > U.S.A. > Western States > mid-west Middle Western1797 Middle American1851 Midwestern1886 Midwest1905 Mid-American1906 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xlii. 213 The unread, unsophisticated Protestant of the Middle American States. 1910 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 40 531 If our point of view is correct, we might expect to find a gradual decrease of the typical middle American elements [of culture] as we go northward and southward. 1992 Ebony May 80/3 Kentucky is a middle American state where visitors can learn a bit of Black history while having fun during the world-famous Kentucky Derby. b. Of or relating to the geographical region of Middle America (Middle America n. 1). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > Central and South America > [adjective] > Central America Central American1824 Sonoran1857 Mid-American1859 Middle American1910 Mesoamerican1948 1910 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 40 532 It is easy to show that the Iroquois have absorbed or retained many aspects of Middle American culture:..some of their inventions, like the blow-gun, connect them directly with the tribes of the Gulf of Mexico and of South America. 1918 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 15 698 A Northern (or Canadian), a Western (or Pacific Coast), and a Middle American (or Mexican-Antillean) Association. 1926 F. F. Blom Tribes & Temples I. i. 4 There are maps of most of the Middle American countries, and the greater number of them..are remarkably inaccurate. 1961 W. Brandon Indians 52/2 There are the resemblances between Asiatic parcheesi (pachisi) and the Middle American game of patolli. 1970 Man 5 286 Middle American Indian cultures tend to have agnatic groupings. 1996 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 93 3771/1 Large earthquakes along the Middle American subduction zone. 2. Of or relating to Middle America (Middle America n. 3) as a social class. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [adjective] > specific Mayflower1921 Waspish1968 Waspy1968 Middle American1969 1969 Collier's Encycl. Year Bk. 3 Her [sc. Mrs Richard Nixon's] looks and taste are classic Middle American, even as her husband's are. 1971 Newsweek 29 Nov. 52/1 Archie Bunker, the middle American hero of ‘All in the Family’..sees himself menaced by a rising tide of spades,..meat~heads,..fags and four-eyes. 1996 Q. Troupe Avalanche i. 53 What we see there, square dancing in front of us, are xeroxed copies of middle-american porkers, who are copies of other copies. 1997 L. Carcaterra Apaches i. i. 13 Middle-American fantasies of touch football games in the yard, camping trips in the summer, or boisterous talks around a dinner table. B. n. 1. A member of Middle America (Middle America n. 3) as a social class. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > collectively > specific > one of Middle American1907 1907 J. Jacobs in Amer. Mag. Mar. 522/1 Who is the typical American?.. He is Samuel Thwaites Raggers, and I call him ‘The Middle American’. 1919 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. vi. ii. 185 This highly virile and defiant dialect and not the fossilized English of the school-marm and her books, is the speech of the Middle American of Joseph Jacobs' composite—the mill-hand in a small city of Indiana. 1970 Time 5 Jan. 9 Who precisely are the Middle Americans?.. They make up the core of the group that Richard Nixon now invokes as the ‘forgotten Americans’ or ‘the Great Silent Majority’. 1973 H. L. Nieburg Culture Storm i. 2 No longer the exclusive province of the intellectual, the moral decrepitude of the nation is taken for granted even by the plastic middle Americans. 1975 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 28/1 The phrase ‘Middle American’ was first used..by Joseph Kraft in the spring of 1968, when he was writing about the municipal workers in New York City... He specifically referred to their ethnic character: Irish policemen, Italian sanitation workers, Jewish school-teachers, and so on. 1989 B. Ehrenreich Fear of Falling iii. 102 The Middle Americans that the media discovered were..a far larger category than the blue-collar working class... To get away from the no-longer-newsworthy blacks, hippies, radicals, and poor people, most media analysts were content to define Middle Americans as almost anybody but the members of those disturbing groups. 2. A native or inhabitant of Middle America (Middle America n. 1) as a geographical region. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > parts of New Englander1637 bayman1641 New English1647 Novangle1650 Novanglian1752 Yankee1765 cracker1766 Yank?1778 bushwhacker1809 tuckahoe1816 southerner1817 Yengees1819 muskrat1823 blue belly1827 half horse and half alligator1828 Southron1828 northerner1831 westerner1835 Northman1836 Easterner1838 Far-Wester1843 southwesterner1845 western1846 sand-hiller1848 Vineyarder1851 mountain boomer1859 Far Westerner1862 blue-nosed Yankee1866 Appalachian1888 sloper1892 Ozarkian1893 rebel1895 reb1897 Middle Westerner1899 hillbilly1900 Midwesterner1916 Ozarker1920 Geechee1926 Middle American1944 upstater1944 Mid-American1959 1944 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 29 386 The main problem to be solved [concerning Central America], that of securing the goodwill of these Middle Americans, is not enlarged upon. 1971 Internat. Organization 25 192 Middle Americans participated in the settlement of disputes in their area and in South America, and the South Americans participated in the settlement of disputes in their area and in Middle America. The local centers—Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico—accounted for much of their respective subsystem's participation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1851
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