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