middle
English
Alternative forms
- myddle (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#MIDDLECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#MIDDLE middel, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#MIDDLECategory:English terms derived from Old English#MIDDLE middel (“middle, centre, waist”), from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#MIDDLECategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#MIDDLE *midlą, *midilą, *medalą (“middle”), a diminutive of Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#MIDDLE *midjō (“middle, midst”) (compare *midjaz (“mid, middle”, adjective)), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#MIDDLE *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Middel (“middle”), West Frisian mul (“middle”), Dutch middel (“means; medicine, cure”), German mittel (“middle”, adjective), Mittel (“means; medicament, remedy”, noun), Luxembourgish Mëttel (“means, method; medicament”), Vilamovian mytuł (“middle”), Yiddish מיטל (mitl, “middle”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk middel (“means”), Icelandic meðal (“average; means, medicine”), Swedish medel (“average, mean, middle”). See also mid.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɪdl̩/, [ˈmɪ.dəɫ], [ˈmɪ.dʊ]Category:English 2-syllable words#MIDDLECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#MIDDLE
- (General South African) IPA(key): [ˈmɨdl̩]Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#MIDDLE
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈmɪdl̩/, [ˈmɪ.ɾɫ̩]Category:English 2-syllable words#MIDDLECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#MIDDLE
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#MIDDLEAudio (US): (file) - (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈmɪdəl/, [ˈmɪ̝.dəɫ], [ˈmɪ̝.dʊ], [ˈmɪ̝.ɾ-]Category:English 2-syllable words#MIDDLECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#MIDDLE
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#MIDDLEAudio (General Australian): (file) - (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈmɘdɘl/, [ˈmə.dɯ(ɫ)], [ˈmə.ɾ-]Category:English 2-syllable words#MIDDLECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#MIDDLE
- Rhymes: -ɪdəlCategory:Rhymes:English/ɪdəl#MIDDLECategory:Rhymes:English/ɪdəl/2 syllables#MIDDLE
Noun
middle (plural middles)Category:English lemmas#MIDDLECategory:English nouns#MIDDLECategory:English countable nouns#MIDDLECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MIDDLECategory:Pages with entries#MIDDLECategory:Pages with 2 entries#MIDDLE
- A centre, midpoint.
- The middle of a circle is the point which has the same distance to every point of circle.Category:English terms with usage examples#MIDDLE
- The part between the beginning and the end.
- I woke up in the middle of the night.Category:English terms with usage examples#MIDDLE
- In the middle of the marathon, David collapsed from fatigue.Category:English terms with usage examples#MIDDLE
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.Category:English terms with quotations#MIDDLE
- (cricketCategory:en:Cricket#MIDDLE) The middle stump.
- The central part of a human body; the waist.
- 2012, Caroline Moore, Fasting In A Fast World:
- If I have a diet plan and stick to it, it is easy for me to have control over my middle.Category:English terms with quotations#MIDDLE
- (grammarCategory:en:Grammar#MIDDLE) The middle voice.
- (politicsCategory:en:Politics#MIDDLE) the center of the political spectrum.
- As part of his successful re-election strategy, Clinton began governing from the middle.Category:English terms with usage examples#MIDDLE
- An essay on social or literary issues in a newspaper or magazine, originally placed between the leading articles and the reviews.
- 1913 (date written), Rudyard Kipling, “The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat”, in A Diversity of Creatures, London: Macmillan and Co., […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 171:
- ‘Did you see the Spec. had a middle on “Rural Tenacities” last week. That was all Huckley.’Category:English terms with quotations#MIDDLE
Synonyms
Translations
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Adjective
middle (no comparative, superlative middlemost or (colloquial, childish) middlest)Category:English lemmas#MIDDLECategory:English adjectives#MIDDLECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MIDDLECategory:Pages with entries#MIDDLECategory:Pages with 2 entries#MIDDLE
- Located in the middle; in between.
- the middle pointCategory:English terms with usage examples#MIDDLE
- Central.
- (grammarCategory:en:Grammar#MIDDLE) Pertaining to the middle voice.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:intermediate
Derived terms
- Middle Aramaic
- Middle Armenian
- Middle Assamese
- Middle Bengali
- Middle Breton
- Middle Bulgarian
- Middle Chinese
- Middle Cornish
- Middle Czech
- Middle Danish
- Middle Dutch
- Middle Egyptian, Late-Category:English links with redundant wikilinks#MIDDLE, Neo-Category:English links with redundant wikilinks#MIDDLE
- Middle English
- Middle French
- Middle Frisian
- Middle Greek
- Middle High German
- Middle HighCategory:English links with redundant wikilinks#MIDDLE, Low GermanCategory:English links with redundant wikilinks#MIDDLE
- Middle Indo-Aryan
- Middle Iranian
- Middle Irish
- Middle Japanese
- Middle Kingdom
- Middle Korean
- Middle Latin
- Middle Low Franconian
- Middle Low German
- Middle Low Saxon
- Middle Malayalam
- Middle Mongol
- Middle Mongolian
- Middle Norse
- Middle Norwegian
- Middle Ottoman
- Middle Persian
- Middle Polish
- Middle Saxon
- Middle Scots
- Middle Tamil
- Middle Welsh
- Hartington Middle Quarter
- Llangynwyd Middle
- Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove
- Middle America
- Middle American
- Middle America, -nCategory:English links with redundant wikilinks#MIDDLE
- Middle Arm
- Middle Babylonian
- Middleback Range
- Middle Beach
- Middle Belt
- Middlebourne
- Middle Brook, Middlebrook
- Middle Brother
- Middleburg
- Middlebury
- Middle Caicos
- Middle Cambrian
- Middle Claydon
- Middle Congo
- Middle Cove
- Middle Creek
- Middle Dural
- Middle Earth
- Middle Earth, middle earth; Middle-earth, middle-earth
- Middle East, -ernCategory:English links with redundant wikilinks#MIDDLE, -izationCategory:English links with redundant wikilinks#MIDDLE
- Middle England
- Middle England, -erCategory:English links with redundant wikilinks#MIDDLE
- Middle European
- Middle European Time
- Middle Falbrook
- Middle Flat
- Middle Francia
- Middle Franconia
- Middle Gap
- Middle Harbour
- Middle Kingdom
- Middlemount
- Middle Mouse
- Middle Ocean
- Middle Park
- Middle Passage
- Middle Pocket
- Middle Point
- Middle Quezon Hill Subdivision
- Middle Quirino Hill
- Middle Rainton
- Middle Ridge
- Middle River
- Middle Rock Quarry
- Middle Saxon
- Middlesbrough
- Middlesex
- Middle States
- Middle Stoke
- Middle Swan
- Middle Tamil
- Middle Tarwin
- Middleton
- Middleton Beach
- Middleton Grange
- Middletown
- Middle Wallop
- Middle Watut
- Middle West
- Middle White
- Middlewich
- Neo-Middle Egyptian
- North and Middle Andaman
- diddle for middle
- down the middle
- in the middle of
- knock someone into the middle of next week
- law of (the) excluded middle
- man in the middle
- monkey in the middle
- piggy (pig) in the middle
- play (work) both sides (ends) against the middle
- take one's half out of the middle
- thick around the middle
- work both ends against the middle
- alt-middle
- lexical middle voice
- man-in-the-middle attack
- middle age, middle-aged
- Middle Ages
- middle-aisle it
- middle article
- middle atmosphere
- middle body
- middleborn
- middlebox
- middlebreaker
- middlebrow
- middlebuster
- middle C
- Middle Cambrian
- middle cerebral artery syndrome
- middle child
- middle childhood
- middle class, middle-class, lower-, upper-
- middle-click
- middle college
- middle course
- middle day
- middle distance, middle-distance
- middle dot
- middle eight
- middle-end
- middle for diddle
- middlegame (middle game)
- middle ground
- middle-grounder
- middle guard
- middle hundreds
- middle income trap
- middle-income trap
- middle infield, -erCategory:English links with redundant wikilinks#MIDDLE
- middle initial
- middle latitude
- middle manager, middle management
- middleman (middle man), middlewoman, middleperson
- middle marker
- middle-market
- middle mile
- Middle Mongol
- middle name
- middle note
- middle of bumfuck nowhere
- middle office
- middle of nowhere
- middle of the market
- middle of the road, -erCategory:English links with redundant wikilinks#MIDDLE
- middle-of-the-roadism
- middle order
- middle pair
- middle passage (Middle Passage)
- middle path
- middle point
- middle position
- middle power
- middle-range
- middle reaches
- middle-road
- middle-roader
- middle school, middle schooler
- middle-sized
- middle splitter
- middle spotted woodpecker
- Middle Stone Age
- middlestream
- middle stump
- Middle Temple
- middle term
- middle tilde
- middletone
- middle verb
- middle voice
- middle watch
- Middle Watut
- middle way
- middleweight
- middle youth
- missing middle
- principle of excluded middle
- right middle lobe syndrome
- syntactic middle voice
Related terms
Translations
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Verb
middle (third-person singular simple present middles, present participle middling, simple past and past participle middled)Category:English lemmas#MIDDLECategory:English verbs#MIDDLECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MIDDLECategory:Pages with entries#MIDDLECategory:Pages with 2 entries#MIDDLE
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#MIDDLE, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#MIDDLE) To take a middle view of. [17th–18th c.]
- 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXVII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
- And now, to middle the matter between both, it is pity, that the man they favour has not that sort of merit which a person of a mind so delicate as that of Miss Harlowe might reasonably expect in a husband.Category:English terms with quotations#MIDDLE
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#MIDDLE, nauticalCategory:en:Nautical#MIDDLE, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#MIDDLE) To double (a rope) into two equal portions; to fold in the middle. [19th c.]
- (cricketCategory:en:Cricket#MIDDLE, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#MIDDLE) To strike (the ball) with the middle portion of the face of the bat.
Middle English
Adjective
middleCategory:Middle English non-lemma forms#MIDDLECategory:Middle English adjective forms#MIDDLECategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#MIDDLECategory:Pages with entries#MIDDLECategory:Pages with 2 entries#MIDDLE
