Middle Eastern
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- adjective
- /ˈmɪdəl ˈiːstərn/
- With your Middle Eastern background, how would you solve it?
- Middle Eastern countries
- Middle Eastern oil
- Middle Eastern culture
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Watch on YouTubeThey don't want me to go to A, to a Middle Eastern chiropractor.
- They don't want me to go to A, to a Middle Eastern chiropractor.
- Mix it up and it's almost like a Middle Eastern type of dip for your cut veggies.
- And that's very, you know, that's very Middle Eastern, if you will.
- I said it's Middle Eastern, it's not Norwegian.
- He was a Prime Minister of a Middle Eastern country.
- It's when they killed the guy on the on the, on the, the the Middle Eastern diplomat slash terrorist funder.
- I had a father call with a heavy Middle Eastern accent and he said, oh, well, I have to back up.
- When you're in the stress positions, there's music that's played and it's at the time it was Middle Eastern music.
- Shame on you for being white and being, you know, a bigot or poor you for being black or Middle Eastern or Hispanic.
Examples
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Iran has suffered perhaps more than any Middle Eastern country from the "oil curse."
Academic text (2008) -
Should Israel believe untested assumptions about Middle Eastern leaders, or should it hold them to certain standards?
Academic text (1991) -
At the same time, Middle Eastern students have increased their profile.
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One of the many wonderful things about this gallery is that we are able to regularly show works by Middle Eastern artists in this gallery.
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What part does tribal organization and culture play in contemporary Middle Eastern life?
Academic text (2008) -
But Fairuz also brought popular Middle Eastern music to Europeans.
Academic text (2015) -
So, for example, we've had wonderful exhibitions of contemporary Middle Eastern calligraphy on display with ancient collection items.
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Both were academics and avid students of ancient Middle Eastern Arab civilizations, their cultures, art, and languages.
Fiction book (1994) -
The bearded, Middle Eastern taxi driver suspiciously eyes Patrick in the rearview mirror.
Fiction book (2000) -
I enjoyed a variety of dishes at the Middle Eastern restaurant last night.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The adjective 'Middle Eastern' is directly composed from 'middle' + 'eastern' to indicate relation to the Middle East; a B1 learner who knows 'middle' and 'east/eastern' can reasonably infer it refers to the region, its people, or culture. This geographic compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically, so the meaning is immediately comprehensible from the constituents.
Etymology
Middle Eastern comes from the phrase 'Middle East', a name Europeans used for lands that are east of Europe but not as far as the 'Far East'. So Middle Eastern means 'from or about that region', its people, cultures, languages, or customs.