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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
Randy Lerner

Meaning of "West Midlands" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WEST MIDLANDS

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WEST MIDLANDS

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West Midlands is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WEST MIDLANDS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of West Midlands in the English dictionary

The definition of West Midlands in the dictionary is a metropolitan county of central England, administered since 1986 by the unitary authorities of Wolverhampton, Walsall, Dudley, Sandwell, Birmingham, Solihull, and Coventry. Area: 899 sq km.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WEST MIDLANDS

West Glamorgan
West Highland white terrier
West Indian
West Indian ebony
West Indian locust
West Indian Satinwood
West Indies
West Irian
West Lothian
West Lothian question
West Nile fever
West Pakistan
West Point
West Pointer
West Prussia
West Riding
West Saxon
West Sussex
West Turkestan
West Virginia

WORDS THAT END LIKE WEST MIDLANDS

British Virgin Islands
Caicos Islands
Cayman Islands
Cook Islands
Falkland Islands
Faroe Islands
hands
Highlands
Hollands
Islands
Keeling Islands
lands
Mariana Islands
Marshall Islands
Midlands
Netherlands
Northern Mariana Islands
Solomon Islands
the Netherlands
Turks and Caicos Islands
Virgin Islands

Synonyms and antonyms of West Midlands in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «West Midlands» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WEST MIDLANDS

Find out the translation of West Midlands to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of West Midlands from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «West Midlands» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

西米德兰兹
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

West Midlands
570 millions of speakers

English

West Midlands
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वेस्ट मिडलैंड्स
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

منطقة ميدلاند الغربية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Уэст-Мидлендс
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

west Midlands
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পশ্চিম Midlands
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

West Midlands
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

West Midlands
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

West Midlands
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ウェスト·ミッドランズ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

웨스트 미들랜드
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

West Midlands
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

West Midlands
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மேற்கு மிட்லாண்ட்ஸ்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वेस्ट मिडलँड्स
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

West Midlands
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

West Midlands
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

West Midlands
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Уест - Мідлендс
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

West Midlands
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

West Midlands
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

West Midlands
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

West Midlands
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

West Midlands
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of West Midlands

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WEST MIDLANDS»

The term «West Midlands» is very widely used and occupies the 17.551 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WEST MIDLANDS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «West Midlands» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «West Midlands» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about West Midlands

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QUOTES WITH «WEST MIDLANDS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word West Midlands.
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Randy Lerner
In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WEST MIDLANDS»

Discover the use of West Midlands in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to West Midlands and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Making the Voice of the West Midlands Heard: The Work of the ...
The Work of the Committee, and the Future for the Region, Third Report of Session 2009-10, Report, Together with Formal Minutes [and Written Evidence] Great Britain Parliament House of Commons West Midlands Regional Committee .
Great Britain Parliament House of Commons West Midlands Regional Committee, 2010
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Roman sculpture from the North West Midlands
This is the first comprehensive catalogue of the sculpture from this region of Roman Britain.
Martin Henig, Graham Webster, T. F. C. Blagg, 2004
3
Crisis in the industrial heartland: a study of the West Midlands
Analyzing the impact of the current recession on the major industrial center of the West Midlands, this study shows how the seeds of decline were present as early as the 1960s and 1970s.
Kenneth Spencer, 1986
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A Handbook of Varieties of English: Morphology and syntax
Introduction Today, the term West Midlands (WM) is generally used to refer to the conurbation that includes Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Walsall, West Bromwich and Coventry, and can also be used to refer to speech associated with the ...
Edgar Werner Schneider, Bernd Kortmann, 2004
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West Midlands Murders
With speed essential, Bill Squires contacted Superintendent Thomas Banks, head ofthe West Midlands Police Criminal Investigation Department,and the superintendent'sright hand man, Detective Chief InspectorBob Roberts, whowas later ...
Mike Posner, 2013
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HS2 Property and Compensation for London-West Midlands: ...
Phase One will run between London Euston and the West Midlands, with a new station built in central Birmingham, linking to the existing West Coast Main Line ( WCML) north of Lichfield. Phase One will also provide a direct link with ...
Great Britain: Department for Transport, 2013
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The West Midlands and the Peak District Rough Guides ...
Introduction to The West Midlands and the Peak District Highlights > To 5: Great laces to sta in the est Midlands and the Peak District > With justification, the small country towns and untrammelled scenery of the West Midlands are the apple of ...
Rob Humphreys, Robert Andrews, Jules Brown, 2012
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HS2 Property and Compensation for London-West Midlands: ...
Phase One will run between London Euston and the West Midlands, with a new station built in central Birmingham, linking to the existing West Coast Main Line ( WCML) north of Lichfield. Phase One will also provide a direct link with ...
Great Britain: Department for Transport, 2013
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Report: pt. 3: Trent Valley. pt. 4: West Midlands
Great Britain. Ministry of Housing and Local Government. Advisory Committee on Sand and Gravel. Printed in Great Britain under the authority of H.M. Stationery Office by THE CAMPFIELD PRESS, ST. ALBANS 12556. Wt. 2658. P.8910.
Great Britain. Ministry of Housing and Local Government. Advisory Committee on Sand and Gravel, 1950
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Folk Tales of the West Midlands
Frederick Grice. FOLK TALES OF THE WEST MIDLANDS No. 254 OF THE WEST MIDLANDS FREDERICK GRICE Drawings by N. J. The Teaching of English Series.
Frederick Grice, 1952

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WEST MIDLANDS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term West Midlands is used in the context of the following news items.
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West Midlands council leaders vow to create combined authority
The leaders, who were joined by representatives of three West Midlands Local Enterprise Partnerships, the agencies responsible for strategic economic ... «Birmingham Post, Jun 15»
2
West Midlands police arrest terror suspects
The pair, believed to be friends, were detained at approximately 7.30pm last night (May 28) by officers from the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit, assisted ... «Birmingham Mail, May 15»
3
Graphic: Villa fly the flag for West Midlands
Aston Villa will fly the flag for the West Midlands when they get the Premier ... The claret and blues take up the mantle as West Brom prepare for Monday night, ... «expressandstar.com, May 15»
4
West Midlands Police given more time over Dover terror arrests
They are being held at a police station in the West Midlands. West Midlands Police said officers now had until 08:00 on 10 April to charge, release or apply for ... «BBC News, Apr 15»
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Black Country MP demands Home Secretary intervene over West
Mr Austin said government cuts would result in the loss of 2,500 police officers and that the West Midlands deserved a 'fairer share' of funding. «expressandstar.com, Mar 15»
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Study reveals scale of child sexual exploitation in West Midlands
The majority of victims were female and around a third of the 488 children identified were in local authority care, the analysis by West Midlands police, children's ... «The Guardian, Mar 15»
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Aston Villa pitch invasion: West Midlands Police have made 17 …
West Midlands Police have made 17 arrests related to Aston Villa's FA Cup win ... a safe environment," Chief Superintendent Chris Johnson from West Midlands ... «The Independent, Mar 15»
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BT Sport set for midweek Barclays Premier League double; includes …
BT Sport subscribers have two midweek games from the Barclays Premier League to look forward to, including a West Midlands derby between Aston Villa v ... «uSwitch.com, Mar 15»
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Three held in counter-terror operations in Merseyside and West
The West Midlands operation was said to be Syria-related but few details have been released. A 23-year-old woman in the Walsall area was held on suspicion ... «The Guardian, Feb 15»
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West Midlands rocked by earthquake
The latest quake, measuring 3.8 on the Richter scale, hit the East Midlands village of ... including Dudley in the west and Grimsby and Doncaster to the north. «Birmingham Mail, Jan 15»

REFERENCE
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