MIDDLE

MID ·DLE 2 syllables

A2 · Elementary 📏 6 letters 🎲 Scrabble 10 ✅ valid word

Common in conversation and basic reading.

noun
  1. an area that is approximately central within some larger region
  2. an intermediate part or section
  3. the middle area of the human torso (usually in front)
  4. time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period

💬 Examples

  • "it is in the center of town"
  • "they ran forward into the heart of the struggle"
  • "A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end- Aristotle"
  • "young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable"

🔗 Similar words

centercentrehearteyemidriffmidsection
verb
  1. put in the middle
adjective
  1. being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series
  2. equally distant from the extremes
  3. of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages
  4. between an earlier and a later period of time

💬 Examples

  • "adolescence is an awkward in-between age"
  • "in a mediate position"
  • "Middle English is the English language from about 1100 to 1500"
  • "Middle Gaelic"

🔗 Similar words

in-betweenmediatecenter(a)halfwaymiddle(a)midway
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