maidan

plural maidans · alternative maidaun · alternative meidan · alternative meidaun · alternative midan · alternative mydan

1. South AsiaA marketplace or other open space in or by a city or town; an esplanade.First known use 16th c.

   M. Crawford a gallop on the green maidan

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   Inland, the prospect alters. There is an oval maidan, and a long sallow hospital.

   1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 5

   Below on the amorphous brown-violet meidan by the railway station […].

   1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine, Faber, page 84

plural Maidans · plural maidans · alternative Maydan

1. Independence Square, the main city square in Kyiv, Ukraine.First known use 1993
2. The Orange Revolution protests that took place in Kiev’s Maidan in 2004–05; the Euromaidan protests of 2013–14; the protest movement associated with the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution.

1. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of Maidan Shahr: the capital of Maidan Wardak province, Afghanistan.

   Synonyms: Maidan Shar, Maidan Shahr, Shar, Shahr

2. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of Maidan Wardak: a province of Afghanistan.

   Synonyms: Wardak, Wardag, Maidan Wardag, Maidan Wardak

3. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of Euromaidan, the protests in Ukraine in 2014.