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 intermediatepart or section "A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end"- Aristotle
3. (noun)middle, midriff, midsection the middlearea of the humantorso (usually in front)
"young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable"
4. (noun)middle time between the beginning and the end of a temporalperiod "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. (adj)middle between an earlier and a later period of time "in the middle years"; "in his middle thirties"