“middle”

Definitions

• adjective

  being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series

  Synonyms: mediate, active, amidships, arbitrational, arbitrative, average, axial, axis, balance, bisect, center, centermost

  • Example:“Adolescence is an awkward in-between age.”
  • Example:“in a mediate position”

• adjective

  equally distant from the extremes

  Synonyms: center, halfway, midway, centre

• adjective

  of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages

  Antonyms: late, early

  • Example:“Middle English is the English language from about 1100 to 1500.”
  • Example:“Middle Gaelic”

• adjective

  between an earlier and a later period of time

  Antonyms: late, early

  • Example:“in the middle years”
  • Example:“in his middle thirties”

• noun

  an area that is approximately central within some larger region

  Synonyms: center, centre, heart, eye

  • Example:“It is in the center of town.”
  • Example:“They ran forward into the heart of the struggle.”

• noun

  an intermediate part or section

  Antonyms: end, beginning

  • Example:“A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end.”