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Midwest

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The area of the contiguous United States contained in the central third of the country, especially the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas, sometimes inclusive of Missouri and Kentucky.

    "Many of the dynamics today in West Virginia would be familiar in old industrial towns in the Northeast, or in rural communities across the Midwest."

  2. 2
    Alternative spelling of Midwest. alt-of, alternative
  3. 3
    A town in Natrona County, Wyoming, United States.

Etymology

From mid- + West.

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