Meaning & Definition of Middle in English

1. An area that is approximately central within some larger region

• "It is in the center of town"

• "They ran forward into the heart of the struggle"

• "They were in the eye of the storm"

2. An intermediate part or section

• "A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end"- aristotle

3. The middle area of the human torso (usually in front)

• "Young american women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable"

4. Time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period

• "The middle of the war"

• "Rain during the middle of april"

1. Put in the middle

1. Being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series

• "Adolescence is an awkward in-between age"

• "In a mediate position"

• "The middle point on a line"

2. Equally distant from the extremes

3. 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"

• "Middle gaelic"

4. Between an earlier and a later period of time

• "In the middle years"

• "In his middle thirties"