middle west

Questions about middle west

What does middle west mean?

middle west means "the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America)".

What is another word for middle west?

Close synonyms include Midwest, midwestern United States. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is middle west a common word?

middle west 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.