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 Definitions of Middle  [ˈmɪd l]  

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Definition of 'Middle' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

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.

Etymology:  (bef. 900; ME, OE middel, WGmc adj. der. of *middimid1)

Definition of 'Middle' Princeton's WordNet 

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"

9. (verb) middle
put in the middle


Definition of 'Middle' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

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

4. (adj) Middle
the waist


Translation of 'Middle' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: the central point or part
the middle of a circle.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: middel Arabic flag Arabic: مَرْكِز، وَسَط Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: център
Brazilian flag Brazilian: meio Czech flag Czech: střed German flag German: die Mitte
Danish flag Danish: midte Greek flag Greek: μέσο, κέντρο Spanish flag Spanish: medio, centro
Estonian flag Estonian: keskkoht Farsi flag Farsi: مرکز Finnish flag Finnish: keskikohta
French flag French: milieu Hebrew flag Hebrew: אֶמצָע Hindi flag Hindi: मध्यस्थल
Croatian flag Croatian: središte, centar Hungarian flag Hungarian: vminek a közepe Indonesian flag Indonesian: titik tengah
Icelandic flag Icelandic: miðja, miðpunktur Italian flag Italian: centro, metà Japanese flag Japanese: まん中
Korean flag Korean: 중앙 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: vidurys Latvian flag Latvian: vidus; centrs
Malay flag Malay: titik tengah Dutch flag Dutch: midden Norwegian flag Norwegian: midte
Polish flag Polish: środek Persian flag Persian: مرکز Pashto flag Pashto: مركز
Portuguese flag Portuguese: meio Romanian flag Romanian: centru Russian flag Russian: середина
Slovak flag Slovak: stred Slovenian flag Slovenian: sredina Serbian flag Serbian: sredina
Swedish flag Swedish: mitt Thai flag Thai: ตรงกลาง Turkish flag Turkish: merkez, orta
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 中央,中心 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: середина Urdu flag Urdu: وسطی
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: giữa Chinese flag Chinese: 中部,中间

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