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Meaning of 'middle' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Middle [ a.]
- Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age.
- Intermediate; intervening.
- The point or part equally distant from the extremities or exterior limits, as of a line, a surface, or a solid; an intervening point or part in space, time, or order of series; the midst; central portion
- the waist.

Meaning of 'middle' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . middle [ n]
Meaning (1):
- an intermediate part or section
Example in sentence:
  • A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end
Meaning (2):
- an area that is approximately central within some larger region
Example in sentence:
  • it is in the center of town;
  • they ran forward into the heart of the struggle;
  • they were in the eye of the storm
Meaning (3):
- time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period
Example in sentence:
  • rain during the middle of April;
  • the middle of the war
Meaning (4):
- the middle area of the human torso (usually in front)
Example in sentence:
  • young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable
5 . middle [ a]
Meaning (5):
- between an earlier and a later period of time
Example in sentence:
  • in his middle thirties;
  • in the middle years
Meaning (6):
- of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages
Example in sentence:
  • Middle English is the English language from about 1100 to 1500;
  • Middle Gaelic
7 . middle [ s]
Meaning (7):
- being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series
Example in sentence:
  • adolescence is an awkward in-between age;
  • in a mediate position;
  • the middle point on a line

Nearby Words:

mid mid sea mid-sea mida midas midas's ear midbrain midday midden midden crow

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