Middle East
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compound of middle + east formed in English, modeled on Far East and Near East. Attested from the latter 19th century.
Proper noun[edit]
- The region between the Near East and the Far East.
- 1920 April 21, House of Commons, quoting Austen Chamberlain, “Budget proposals, Committee of Ways and Means”, in The Parliamentary Debates, volume 128, page 455:
- Well, what may happen in the Middle East? I agree there are uncertainties, but when he was condemning the policy of the Government with regard to the Turkish peace, had he thought for a moment of the financial effect of the policy which he advocated?
- The region comprising Southwest Asia and Northeast Africa.
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Translations[edit]
region comprising southwest Asia and northeast Africa
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References[edit]
- “Middle East, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2002.