| middle | (n) an intermediate part or section; - Aristotle, Ant. end, beginning, Example: A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end |
| middle | (n) the middle area of the human torso (usually in front), Syn. midriff, midsection, Example: young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable |
| middle | (n) time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period, Ant. end, beginning, Example: the middle of the war; rain during the middle of April |
| middle | (v) put in the middle |
| middle | (adj) of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages, Ant. late, early, Example: Middle English is the English language from about 1100 to 1500; Middle Gaelic |
| middle | (adj) between an earlier and a later period of time, Ant. late, early, Example: in the middle years; in his middle thirties |
| middle age | (n) the time of life between youth and old age (e.g., between 40 and 60 years of age) |
| middle-aged | (adj) being roughly between 45 and 65 years old |
| middle-aged man | (n) a man who is roughly between 45 and 65 years old |
| middle ages | (n) the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance, Syn. Dark Ages |
| Midday | a. Of or pertaining to noon; meridional; |
| Midday | n. [ AS. middaeg. See Mid, a., and Day. ] The middle part of the day; noon. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Midden | n. |
| Midden crow | (Zool.) The common European crow. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Middest | a.; superl. of Mid. [ See Midst. ] Situated most nearly in the middle; middlemost; midmost. [ Obs. ] “ 'Mongst the middest crowd.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Middest | n. Midst; middle. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Midding | n. Same as Midden. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Middle | n. [ AS. middel. See Middle, a. ] The point or part equally distant from the extremities or exterior limits, as of a line, a surface, or a solid; an intervening point or part in space, time, or order of series; the midst; central portion; In this, as in most questions of state, there is a middle. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Middle | a. [ OE. middel, AS. middel; akin to D. middel, OHG. muttil, G. mittel. √271. See Mid, a. ] [ 1913 Webster ] Will, seeking good, finds many middle ends. Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ Middle is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, middle-sized, middle-witted. [ 1913 Webster ]
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| Middle-age | [ Middle + age. Cf. Mediaeval. ] Of or pertaining to the Middle Ages; mediaeval. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Middendorffschwirl { m } [ ornith. ] | Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler [Add to Longdo] |
| Middendorfflaubsänger { m } [ ornith. ] | Two-barred Greenish Warbler [Add to Longdo] |