Dictionary Definition
middle adj
1 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" [syn: in-between,
mediate]
3 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" [ant:
late, early]
4 between an earlier and a later period of time;
"in the middle years"; "in his middle thirties" [ant: late, early]
Noun
1 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" [syn: center,
centre, heart, eye]
2 an intermediate part or section; "A whole is
that which has beginning, middle, and end"- Aristotle [ant:
end, beginning]
3 the middle area of the human torso (usually in
front); "young American women believe that a bare midriff is
fashionable" [syn: midriff, midsection]
4 time between the beginning and the end of a
temporal period; "the middle of the war"; "rain during the middle
of April" [ant: end,
beginning] v : put in
the middle
User Contributed Dictionary
see Middle
English
Etymology
Old English middelPronunciation
- /ˈmɪdəl/, /"mId@l/
- Rhymes: -ɪdəl
Noun
- A centre, midpoint
- The middle of a circle is the point which has the same distance to every point of circle.
- The part between the beginning and the end.
- the middle stump
- The central part of a human body.
Translations
centre, midpoint
- Czech: střed
- Danish: midte
- Finnish: keskipiste, keskusta
- Greek: μέση (mési)
- Hungarian: középpont
- Kurdish: ,
- Russian: середина
- West Frisian: middel
part between beginning and end
- Finnish: keskialue, keskikohta, puoliväli
- Greek: μέση (mési)
- Hungarian: közép
- Kurdish: ,
- West Frisian: midden
central part of human body
- Finnish: keskikeho, keskivartalo
- Greek: μέση (mési)
- Hungarian: derék
- ttbc Afrikaans: medium
- ttbc Albanian: mes
- ttbc Arabic:
- ttbc Bengali: majh
- ttbc Bosnian: među
- ttbc Bulgarian: среден (sreden)
- ttbc Catalan: mig
- ttbc Chinese: 中央 (zhōng yāng)
- ttbc Croatian: sredina
- ttbc Dutch: midden
- ttbc Esperanto: mezo
- ttbc Estonian: keskpaik
- ttbc Faeroese: miðja
- ttbc French: milieu
- ttbc Georgian: შუაგული (shuaguli)
- ttbc German: Mitte
- ttbc Hebrew: אֶמְצַע (emtza')
- ttbc Icelandic: miðja
- ttbc Indonesian: titik tengah
- ttbc Irish: lár
- ttbc Italian: mezzo , metà
- ttbc Japanese: 中間 (ちゅうかん) (chūkan)
- ttbc Korean: 중앙 (jung-ang)
- ttbc Latin: medium
- ttbc Latvian: viduklis
- ttbc Lithuanian: vidurys
- ttbc Malay: tengah
- ttbc Mongolian: дунд (dund)
- ttbc Norwegian: midten
- ttbc Old English: middel
- ttbc Persian: (kamar)
- ttbc Polish: środek
- ttbc Portuguese: meio
- ttbc Romanian: mijloc
- ttbc Sardinian: mesu
- ttbc Serbian: средина (sredina)
- ttbc Slovak: polovica
- ttbc Spanish: medio
- ttbc Sranan: mindri
- ttbc Swahili: kati
- ttbc Swedish: mitt
- ttbc Tagalog: gitna
- ttbc Telugu: మధ్య (madhya)
- ttbc Thai: (jòot gèung glaang)
- ttbc Turkish: orta
- ttbc Ukrainian: середній (serédnij)
- ttbc Vietnamese: giữa
- ttbc Welsh: canol
- ttbc Yucatec: chumuk
- ttbc Zulu: phakathi (nc 12)
Adjective
- Being in the middle or in-between; as middle point, middle name, Middle English, Middle Ages, middle weight, etc.
- Central to.
Translations
being in the middle or in-between
central
- Finnish: keskeinen
Related terms
Extensive Definition
Middle may refer to:
History
- The part of a defined historical period lying between Early and Late periods:
- eg: Middle Ages
Geography
- Middle East
- Middle West
- Middle (sheading), a subdivision of the Isle of Man
- Midlands from Middle-lands, the central portion (north to south) of England.
Geography in Fiction
Logic
Grammar
- Middle voice → Grammatical voice
Social class
Socio-Political
Music
- Middle of the road - a broad number of genre of music; usually centered around easy listening.
- "Middle," a song by Rocket from the Crypt from their 1995 album Scream, Dracula, Scream!
Organizations
- Kingdom of the Middle, a regional designation used within the Society for Creative Anachronism.
middle in French: Milieu
middle in Contenese: 中
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
active,
active voice, amidships, arbitrational, arbitrative, average, axial, axis, balance, bisect, center, center of action, center
of gravity, center on, center round, centermost, central, centralize, centralized, centric, centroid, centroidal, centrosymmetric,
centrum, coming between,
concentrated,
core, dead center, double, epicenter, equatorial, equidistant, fold, generality, geocentric, going between,
golden mean, halfway,
happy medium, heart,
hub, intercessional, intercessory, intercurrent, interior, interjacent, interlocutory, intermedial, intermediary, intermediate, intermediatory, intervenient, intervening, interventional,
juste-milieu, kernel,
key, marrow, mean, medial, median, mediating, mediative, mediatorial, mediatory, medio-passive,
mediocre, mediocrity, mediterranean, medium, medulla, mesial, mesne, metacenter, mezzo, mid, middle course, middle ground,
middle point, middle position, middle state, middle voice,
middle-of-the-road, middlemost, middling, midland, midmost, midpoint, midriff, midships, midst, midway, nave, navel, norm, normal, nub, nuclear, nucleus, omphalic, omphalos, pacificatory, par, passive, passive voice, pith, pivot, pivotal, reflexive, rule, run, stomach, storm center, umbilical, umbilicus, via media, voice, waist