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meidan

meidan is the alternative spelling of maidan.

Meaning of maidan

Noun (1)

maidan (plural maidans)

  1. (South-Asia) A marketplace or other open space in or by a city or town; an esplanade.
    • 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

Noun (2)

Maidan (plural Maidans or maidans)

  1. Independence Square, the main city square in Kyiv, Ukraine.
  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.

Forms of meidan

pluralmeidans

Questions about meidan

What is meidan the alternative spelling of?
Meidan is the alternative spelling of maidan.

Words near meidan in the dictionary

  1. meibutsu
  2. meicatalecticizant
  3. meicatalecticizants
  4. Meichuan
  5. meid
  6. meidan
  7. meidans
  8. meidaun
  9. meidauns
  10. meide
  11. Meidenbauer

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