noun: (chiefly South Asia) A marketplace or other open space in or by a city or town; an esplanade.
noun: Independence Square, the main city square in Kiev, Ukraine.
noun: 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.
noun: Ellipsis of Maidan Shahr. The capital of Maidan Wardak, Afghanistan
noun: Ellipsis of Maidan Wardak. A province of Afghanistan
noun: Ellipsis of Euromaidan. (the protests in Ukraine in 2014) [A series of antigovernment protests in Ukraine that started in November 2013.]