middle
1. [ noun ] an area that is approximately central within some larger region
Synonyms: center heart eye centre
Examples:

"it is in the center of town" "they ran forward into the heart of the struggle" "they were in the eye of the storm"

Related terms: area city_center inner_city seat midfield hub financial_center see center_stage midstream city_of_london hub medical_center storm_center
2. [ adjective ] being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series
Synonyms: mediate in-between
Examples:

"adolescence is an awkward in-between age" "in a mediate position" "the middle point on a line"

Related terms: intermediate
3. [ adjective ] being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series
Synonyms: mediate in-between
Examples:

"adolescence is an awkward in-between age" "in a mediate position" "the middle point on a line"

Related terms: intermediate
4. [ adjective ] equally distant from the extremes
Synonyms: halfway midway center
Related terms: central
5. [ noun ] an intermediate part or section
Examples:

: "A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end"- Aristotle

Related terms: end beginning part
6. [ noun ] (anatomy) the middle area of the human torso (usually in front)
Synonyms: midsection midriff
Examples:

"young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable"

Related terms: area torso
7. [ adjective ] (linguistics) of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages
Examples:

"Middle English is the English language from about 1100 to 1500" "Middle Gaelic"

Related terms: early late linguistics
8. [ noun ] time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period
Examples:

: "the middle of the war" "rain during the middle of April"

Related terms: end beginning point deep
9. [ adjective ] between an earlier and a later period of time
Examples:

"in the middle years" "in his middle thirties"

Related terms: early late mid intervening timing
10. [ adjective ] (education) of the stage of education and schools between elementary and secondary including middle grades centering on 5 through 7
Synonyms: intermediate
Examples:

"intermediate schools" "the intermediate (or middle) grades" "a middle school"

Related terms: elementary secondary junior_high
11. [ verb ] put in the middle
Related terms: situate put
Similar spelling:   muddle
  meddle