Middle American
Britishadjective
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of or relating to the territories between the US and South America or their inhabitants
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of or relating to the US middle class, esp those groups that are politically conservative
noun
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a native or inhabitant of Middle America
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a member of the US middle class
Example Sentences
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The story centers on Alice, an ordinary Middle American girl who begins to suffer from a mental disorder while enrolled at the University of Oklahoma.
It’s 1922, and the middle American kingdom of Cahokia is thriving.
From Los Angeles Times
“It wasn’t that easy,” says Estrada-Belli, a professor at Tulane University’s Middle American Research Institute and an expert in the Preclassic and Classic Maya periods.
From National Geographic
The event, Rios said, was deliberately Middle American — “baseball, hot dogs and apple pie,” she said — as befitting the desire to keep the effort broad and bottom-up, with reach “from Fairbanks to Philadelphia.”
From New York Times
If you live on a decent-sized property in a major Middle American city or a grass-covered suburb in the Northeast, there’s a good chance your local government is encouraging you to keep your lawnmower locked up right now.
From Slate
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