meidan

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Etymology

From Persian میدان (meydân), itself from Arabic ميدان (meydān).

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Noun

meidan (plural meidans)

  1. (chiefly India and Pakistan) An expanse of open space in or by a city or town.
    • 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine, Faber, page 84
      Below on the amorphous brown-violet meidan by the railway station

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