middle
25 ENTRIES FOUND:
- middle (adjective)
- middle (noun)
- middle–of–the–road (adjective)
- middle–sized (adjective)
- middle age (noun)
- Middle Ages (noun)
- Middle America (noun)
- Middle Atlantic (adjective)
- middle C (noun)
- middle class (noun)
- middle distance (noun)
- middle ear (noun)
- Middle East (noun)
- Middle English (noun)
- middle finger (noun)
- middle ground (noun)
- middle management (noun)
- middle manager (noun)
- middle name (noun)
- middle school (noun)
- Middle West (noun)
- Middle East (proper noun)
- catch (verb)
- pig (noun)
- piggy (noun)
Britannica Dictionary definition of MIDDLE
always used before a noun
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equally distant from the ends or sides
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halfway between two points
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He walked down the middle [=center] aisle.
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during the century's middle decades
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High temperatures today should be in the middle 80s.
2
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in a state or place between two things or people
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He grew up as the middle child in a family with three children. [=he was the child born before the youngest and after the oldest]
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Franklin D. Roosevelt's middle initial stood for “Delano.”
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middle
/ˈmɪdl̟/
noun
plural
middles
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middle
/ˈmɪdl̟/
noun
plural
middles
Britannica Dictionary definition of MIDDLE
[count]
1
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a middle part, point, or position
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He parts his hair in the middle. [=center]
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A good essay will have a clear beginning, middle, and end.
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He stood exactly in the middle of the room.
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She opened the book to the middle and began to read.
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The car stopped in the middle of the road.
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The house should be finished by the middle of next summer.
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The beginning and ending of the movie were good, but the middle was pretty boring.
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Slice the banana right down the middle. [=slice it into two equal parts]
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We split the cost down the middle. [=we split the cost equally]
2
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the middle part of a person's body
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waist
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She put her arms around his middle.
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He tied the sash around his middle.
in the middle
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in a difficult or unpleasant position
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She hated conflict and did not want to be put in the middle.
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He was caught in the middle of his parents' divorce. = He was caught in the middle when his parents got divorced.
in the middle of
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while (something) is happening or being done
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during (something)
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The protesters interrupted her in the middle of her speech.
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He kept waking up in the middle of the night.
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The movie was so bad we walked out right in the middle of it.
2
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in the process of (doing something)
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I was in the middle of (eating) dinner [=I was eating dinner] when the phone rang.
in the middle of nowhere
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in a place that is far away from other people, houses, or cities
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We got lost in the middle of nowhere.
