Definition of middle Middle
/mɪˈdʌl/ - [midul] - mid•dle
We found 22 definitions of middle from 5 different sources.
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NounPlural: middles |
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| middle - time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period; "the middle of the war"; "rain during the middle of April" | ||
| ending, end the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme); "I don't like words that have -ism as an ending" | ||
| starting time, showtime, get-go, outset, commencement, kickoff, beginning, first, offset, start an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred | ||
| point in time, point sharp end; "he stuck the point of the knife into a tree"; "he broke the point of his pencil" | ||
| middle - an intermediate part or section; "A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end"- Aristotle | ||
| end (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage; "no one wanted to play end" | ||
| division, part, section the act or process of dividing | ||
| middle - the middle area of the human torso (usually in front); "young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable" | ||
| midriff, midsection | ||
| region, area a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about; "it was a limited realm of discourse"; "here we enter the region of opinion"; "the realm of the occult" | ||
| middle - 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" | ||
| center, centre, heart, eye | ||
| country, area the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries" | ||
| center stage, centre stage the central area on a theater stage | ||
| central city, city center, city centre the central part of a city | ||
| storm center, storm centre the central area or place of lowest barometric pressure within a storm | ||
| financial center the part of a city where financial institutions are centered | ||
| hub the central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes | ||
| inner city the older and more populated and (usually) poorer central section of a city | ||
| medical center the part of a city where medical facilities are centered | ||
| midfield (sports) the middle part of a playing field (as in football or lacrosse) | ||
| seat any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit); "he dusted off the seat before sitting down" | ||
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| middle - put in the middle | ||
| position, lay, pose, put, place, set cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation | ||
Adjectivemiddle, middler, middlest |
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| middle - between an earlier and a later period of time; "in the middle years"; "in his middle thirties" | ||
| late having died recently; "her late husband" | ||
| early at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time; "early morning"; "an early warning"; "early diagnosis"; "an early death"; "took early retirement"; "an early spring"; "early varieties of peas and tomatoes mature before most standard varieties" | ||
| intervening occurring or falling between events or points in time; "so much had happened during the intervening years" | ||
| 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" | ||
| late having died recently; "her late husband" | ||
| linguistics the humanistic study of language and literature | ||
| middle - equally distant from the extremes | ||
| center, halfway, midway | ||
| central in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area; "a central position" | ||
| 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" | ||
| in-between, mediate | ||
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Wiktionary 
- middle (Noun)
A centre, midpoint. - middle (Noun)
The part between the beginning and the end. - middle (Noun)
The middle stump . - middle (Noun)
The central part of a human body. - middle (Adjective)
Being in the middle or in-between; as middle point , middle name , Middle English , Middle Ages , middle weight , etc. - middle (Adjective)
Central to.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- 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. - middle (a.)
Intermediate; intervening. - middle (a.)
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 - middle (a.)
the waist.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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The point on a segment that is midway between the ends. -
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Being in the midway between the ends.
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