noun
an area that is approximately central within some larger region
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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
noun
an intermediate part or section
Examples
- A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end"- Aristotle
noun
the middle area of the human torso (usually in front)
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Examples
- young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable
noun
time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period
Examples
- the middle of the war
- rain during the middle of April
adjective
being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series
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Examples
- adolescence is an awkward in-between age
- in a mediate position
- the middle point on a line
adjective
equally distant from the extremes
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adjective
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
adjective
between an earlier and a later period of time
Examples
- in the middle years
- in his middle thirties