the Midwest

noun

: the northern central part of the U.S. : the Middle West

the rich farmlands of the Midwest

—often used before another noun

my Midwest childhood

Midwest cities

Examples of the Midwest in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

So, just recently, in – in the Midwest, that work by NOAA and the weather forecasting system and the labs helped give information about how to get out of the way of a tornado two hours in advance, not 15 minutes or 13 minutes, but two hours. —CBS News, 13 July 2025

Wildfires in the Canadian prairies, combined with winds coming from the northwest, are transporting smoke down across the Midwest, including Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. —Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 13 July 2025

Severe thunderstorms continue to threaten parts of the Midwest Saturday afternoon, with western Kentucky up to Michigan in the threat zone. —Dan Peck, ABC News, 12 July 2025

Imagine a major hurricane bearing down on Florida while wildfires rage in California and floods surge across the Midwest. —MSNBC Newsweek, 11 July 2025

Rhymes for the Midwest

• acquiesced
• coalesced
• dispossessed
• manifest
• overdressed
• overstressed
• prepossessed
• reassessed
• reinvest
• repossessed
• unaddressed
• uncompressed