1. (adj.)middle equally distant from the extremes or outer limits; central: the middle part of a room.
2. middle intermediate or intervening: the middle distance.
3. middle medium or average: a man of middle size.
4. middle (cap.) (in the history of a language) intermediate between periods classified as Old and Modern: Middle English.
5. middle of, pertaining to, or being a verb form or voice, as in Greek, in which the subject is represented as acting on or for itself, in contrast to the active voice in which the subject acts and the passive voice in which the subject is acted upon.
6. middle (often cap.) intermediate between the upper and lower divisions of a geologic period, system, or the like: the Middle Devonian.
7. (n.)middle the point, part, position, etc., equidistant from extremes or limits: in the middle of the pool.
8. middle the central part of the human body, esp. the waist: He bent at the middle.
1. (noun)center, centre, middle, heart, eye an area that is approximately central within some larger region "it is in the center of town"; "they ran forward into the heart of the struggle"; "they were in the eye of the storm"
2. (noun)middle an intermediate part or section "A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end"- Aristotle
3. (noun)middle, midriff, midsection the middle area of the human torso (usually in front) "young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable"
4. (adj)middle time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period "the middle of the war"; "rain during the middle of April"
5. (adj)in-between, mediate, middle being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series "adolescence is an awkward in-between age"; "in a mediate position"; "the middle point on a line"
6. (adj)center(a), halfway, middle(a), midway equally distant from the extremes
7. (adj)middle of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages "Middle English is the English language from about 1100 to 1500"; "Middle Gaelic"
8. (verb)middle between an earlier and a later period of time "in the middle years"; "in his middle thirties"
1. (noun)middle the middle the center Stand in the middle of the circle.; Cut the paper along the line that marks the middle.
2. middle between the beginning and the end I woke up in the middle of the night.; I was in the middle of explaining when she got up and left.
3. middle in the middle of nowhere a long way from any house, town, etc. We took a wrong turning and ended up in the middle of nowhere.
4. (adjective)middle central or near the center Our house is the middle one.
5. middle between the beginning and the end The middle chapters of the book are really scary.
Definition of 'MIDDLE'
Webster Dictionary
1. (adj)MIDDLE 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
2. (adj)MIDDLE intermediate; intervening
3. (adj)MIDDLE 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