Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An open space in a South Asian town.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Persia and India, a level open green or esplanade in or adjoining a town, serving for a parade-ground or for amusements of all sorts, but especially for military exercises, horsemanship, and horseraces. Sometimes spelled
meidan .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun In various parts of Asia, an open space, as for military exercises, or for a market place; an open grassy tract; an esplanade.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
meidan .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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There was a legend in the family that years ago, when the maidan was a tank, an aunt was sitting in the garden, combing her daughter's long hair.
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The biggest mystery for me about Indian words in Europe is how Indo-Aryan "maidan" entered Ukrainian.
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The absence of forest and other obstructions to the view, the breadth and flatness of the valleys, and the undulating character of the lower ranges that traverse its surface, give it a comparatively level appearance, and suggest the term "maidan" or "plains" to the Tibetan, when comparing his country with the complicated ridges of the deep Sikkim valleys.
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Meanwhile, Rahul Gandhi's helicopter has landed on the filthy Ramlila 'maidan' creating a virtual dust storm, which temporarily hides the filth on the ground.
rediff.com 2009
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The term "maidan," so often applied to Tibet by the natives, implies, not a plain like that of India, but simply an open, dry, treeless country, in contrast to the densely wooded wet regions of the snowy Himalaya, south of Tibet.] forms no exception.
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But Shaheed was staring at a maidan in which lady doctors were being bayoneted before they were raped, and raped again before they were shot.
G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010
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But Shaheed was staring at a maidan in which lady doctors were being bayoneted before they were raped, and raped again before they were shot.
G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010
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But Shaheed was staring at a maidan in which lady doctors were being bayoneted before they were raped, and raped again before they were shot.
G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010
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But Shaheed was staring at a maidan in which lady doctors were being bayoneted before they were raped, and raped again before they were shot.
G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010
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But Shaheed was staring at a maidan in which lady doctors were being bayoneted before they were raped, and raped again before they were shot.
G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010
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September 19, 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word maidan
"We went to the railway station so that I could buy a ticket for the Himigiri-Howrah Express, a mighty Aryan iron horse that would drag me clear across the north of the subcontinent to Chandigarh. I got a chitty from Window A and took it for authorisation to Window B. At Window B I received a second chitty and took it to the Sales Booth. Every single step had to be taken through a dense thicket of humanity; thorny limbs pricked me, twiggy fingers scratched me. I emerged blinking and bedevilled into the harsh light of the maidan."
Psychogeography by Will Self, p 85
October 13, 2010