what does middle mean?
MIDDLE as NOUN
- Meaning
- the middle area of the human torso (usually in front)
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Usage Example(s)
- young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable
Hypernyms(s) middle is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
- Meaning
- an intermediate part or section
Usage Example(s)
- A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end- Aristotle
Hypernyms(s) middle is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- Meaning
- an area that is approximately central within some larger region
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Usage Example(s)
- it is in the center of town
- they ran forward into the heart of the struggle
- they were in the eye of the storm
Hypernyms(s) middle is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- Meaning
- time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period
Usage Example(s)
- the middle of the war
- rain during the middle of April
Hypernyms(s) middle is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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MIDDLE as VERB
- Meaning
Hypernyms(s) middle is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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MIDDLE as ADJECTIVE
- Meaning
- between an earlier and a later period of time
Usage Example(s)
- in the middle years
- in his middle thirties
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Attribute(s)
- Meaning
- of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages
Usage Example(s)
- Middle English is the English language from about 1100 to 1500
- Middle Gaelic
Antonym(s)
- Meaning
- being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series
Synonym(s)
Usage Example(s)
- adolescence is an awkward in-between age
- in a mediate position
- the middle point on a line
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