mid-atlantic states

Questions about mid-atlantic states

What does mid-atlantic states mean?

mid-atlantic states means "a region of the eastern United States comprising New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Delaware and Maryland".

Is mid-atlantic states a common word?

mid-atlantic states 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.