Dictionary definition · middle
noun
- an area that is approximately central within some larger region"it is in the center of town"
- an intermediate part or section"A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end"
- the middle area of the human torso (usually in front)"young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable"
- the point between the beginning and the end of a temporal period or process"the middle of the war"
verb
- put in the middle
adjective
- being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series"adolescence is an awkward in-between age"
- equally distant from the extremes
- 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"
- between an earlier and a later period of time"in the middle years"
Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).