What is the meaning of middle?

noun

  • An area that is approximately central within some larger region.
    • usage: "it is in the center of town"; "they ran forward into the heart of the struggle"; "they were in the eye of the storm"
  • An intermediate part or section. "A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end- Aristotle
  • The middle area of the human torso (usually in front. )
    • usage: "young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable"
  • Time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period.
    • usage: "the middle of the war"; "rain during the middle of April"

verb

  • Put in the middle.

adjective

  • Being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series.
    • usage: "adolescence is an awkward in-between age"; "in a mediate position"; "the middle point on a line"
  • Equally distant from the extremes.
  • Of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages.
    • usage: "Middle English is the English language from about 1100 to 1500"; "Middle Gaelic"
  • Between an earlier and a later period of time.
    • usage: "in the middle years"; "in his middle thirties"
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APAWordNet. (2010). middle. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/middle/definitions/1178408
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