east midland

1. 1.

   the dialect of Middle English that replaced West Saxon as the literary language and which developed into Modern English

   BroaderMiddle English

Questions about east midland

What does east midland mean?

east midland means "the dialect of Middle English that replaced West Saxon as the literary language and which developed into Modern English".

Is east midland a common word?

east midland is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.