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