Definition of "maidan" in Englisch

noun

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

   • M. Crawford a gallop on the green maidan

noun

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.