MIDDLE as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • the middle area of the human torso (usually in front)
   Synonym(s)
   • midriff (what does midriff mean?)
   • midsection (what does midsection mean?)
   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
   • area (what does area mean?)
   • region (what does region mean?)
2. 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
   • part (what does part mean?)
   • section (what does section mean?)
   • division (what does division mean?)
   Antonym(s)
   • end (what does end mean?)
   • beginning (what does beginning mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • middle (what does middle mean?)
3. Meaning
   • an area that is approximately central within some larger region
   Synonym(s)
   • center (what does center mean?)
   • centre (what does centre mean?)
   • eye (what does eye mean?)
   • heart (what does heart mean?)
   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
   • area (what does area mean?)
   • country (what does country mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • center stage (what does center stage mean?)
   • centre stage (what does centre stage mean?)
   • city center (what does city center mean?)
   • city centre (what does city centre mean?)
   • central city (what does central city mean?)
   • storm center (what does storm center mean?)
   • storm centre (what does storm centre mean?)
   • financial center (what does financial center mean?)
   • hub (what does hub mean?)
   • inner city (what does inner city mean?)
   • medical center (what does medical center mean?)
   • midfield (what does midfield mean?)
   • seat (what does seat mean?)
   • City of London (what does City of London mean?)
   • the City (what does the City mean?)
   • midstream (what does midstream mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • middle (what does middle mean?)
4. 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
   • point (what does point mean?)
   • point in time (what does point in time mean?)
   Antonym(s)
   • end (what does end mean?)
   • ending (what does ending mean?)
   • beginning (what does beginning mean?)
   • commencement (what does commencement mean?)
   • first (what does first mean?)
   • outset (what does outset mean?)
   • get-go (what does get-go mean?)
   • start (what does start mean?)
   • kickoff (what does kickoff mean?)
   • starting time (what does starting time mean?)
   • showtime (what does showtime mean?)
   • offset (what does offset mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • deep (what does deep mean?)

MIDDLE as VERB

1. Meaning
   • put in the middle
   Hypernyms(s) middle is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • put (what does put mean?)
   • set (what does set mean?)
   • place (what does place mean?)
   • pose (what does pose mean?)
   • position (what does position mean?)
   • lay (what does lay mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • middle (what does middle mean?)
   • center (what does center mean?)
   • centre (what does centre mean?)
   • middle (what does middle mean?)
   • heart (what does heart mean?)
   • eye (what does eye mean?)

MIDDLE as ADJECTIVE

1. Meaning
   • between an earlier and a later period of time
   Usage Example(s)
   • in the middle years
   • in his middle thirties
   Antonym(s)
   • late (what does late mean?)
   • early (what does early mean?)
   Similar To
   • intervening (what does intervening mean?)
   • mid(a) (what does mid(a) mean?)
   Attribute(s)
   • timing (what does timing mean?)
2. 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)
   • late (what does late mean?)
   • early (what does early mean?)
3. Meaning
   • being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series
   Synonym(s)
   • in-between (what does in-between mean?)
   • mediate (what does mediate mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • adolescence is an awkward in-between age
   • in a mediate position
   • the middle point on a line
   Similar To
   • intermediate (what does intermediate mean?)