From Middle English middel, from Old English middel, middle (“middle, centre, waist”), from Proto-Germanic *midlą, *midilą, *medalą (“middle”), a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *midjō (“middle, midst”) (compare *midjaz (“mid, middle”, adjective)), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”). Cognate with West Frisian middel, Dutch middel, German mittel (“middle”, adjective), German Mittel (“middle, means”, noun), Danish middel (“means, agent, medicine; middle/medium”). Related also to Swedish medel (“means, medium”), Icelandic meðal (“means, medicine”). See also mid.
middle (plural middles)
- A centre, midpoint.
The middle of a circle is the point which has the same distance to every point of circle.
- The part between the beginning and the end.
I woke up in the middle of the night.
In the middle of the marathon, David collapsed from fatigue.
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.
- (cricket) 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.
- (grammar) The middle voice.
- (politics) the center of the political spectrum.
- As part of his successful re-election strategy, Clinton began governing from the middle.
centre, midpoint
- Afrikaans: midde
- Aklanon: tunga'
- Albanian: mes (sq) m
- Arabic: مُنْتَصَف m (muntaṣaf), وَسَط m (wasaṭ)
- Armenian: մեջտեղ (hy) (meǰteġ), կենտրոն (hy) (kentron)
- Aromanian: njadzã f, nolgic n, nolgiuc, njilgioc, mesi f, mese (roa-rup) f
- Assamese: মাজ (maz)
- Avar: цӏцӏороб (ccʼorob)
- Azerbaijani: orta (az)
- Bashkir: урта (urta)
- Basque: erdi
- Belarusian: сярэдзі́на f (sjaredzína), сяро́дак m (sjaródak)
- Bengali: মধ্য (bn) (moddho)
- Bikol Central: tahaw (bcl)
- Bulgarian: среда (bg) f (sreda), център (bg) m (centǎr)
- Burmese: အလယ် (my) (a.lai)
- Catalan: mig (ca) m
- Cebuano: tunga
- Cherokee: ᎠᏰᏟ (ayetli)
- Cheyenne: sétóve
- Chinese:
- Eastern Min: 中央 (düng yueng), 中间 (düng (g)an)
- Hokkien: 中央 (zh-min-nan) (tiong-ng), 中間/中间 (zh-min-nan) (tiong-kan)
- Mandarin: 中央 (zh) (zhōngyāng), 中間/中间 (zh) (zhōngjiān), 中心 (zh) (zhōngxīn)
- Crimean Tatar: orta
- Czech: střed (cs) m
- Dalmatian: mesu m
- Danish: midte c
- Drung: vdung
- Dutch: midden (nl) n, centrum (nl) n
- Egyptian: (qꜣb)
- Esperanto: mezo (eo)
- Estonian: keskkoht
- Evenki: дулин (dulin), уңурэ
- Finnish: keskipiste (fi), keskusta (fi)
- French: milieu (fr) m
- Friulian: mieç m
- Fula: hakkunde
- Georgian: შუა (šua), შუაგული (šuaguli)
- German: Mittelpunkt (de)
- Gothic: 𐌼𐌹𐌳𐌿𐌼𐌰 f (miduma)
- Greek: μέση (el) f (mési), μέσο (el) n (méso)
- Ancient: μέσον n (méson)
- Gujarati: મધ્ય (madhya), વચલું (vaclũ), વચ્ચેનું (vaccenũ)
- Haitian Creole: mitan
- Hebrew: אֶמְצַע (he)
- Hindi: मध्य (hi) f (madhya)
- Hungarian: középpont (hu)
- Indonesian: tengah (id)
- Irish: lár m
- Old Irish: medón m
- Italian: mezzo (it) m
- Jamaican Creole: miggle
- Japanese: 中央 (ja) (ちゅうおう, chūō), 中間 (ja) (ちゅうかん, chūkan), 中心 (ja) (ちゅうしん, chūshin)
- Javanese: tengah (jv)
- Kazakh: орта (orta)
- Khmer: កណ្ដាល (km) (kɑndaal)
- Komi-Permyak: шöр (šör)
- Korean: 중앙(中央) (ko) (jung'ang), 중간(中間) (ko) (junggan), 가운데 (ko) (gaunde), 중심 (ko) (jungsim)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ناوەند (ckb) (nawend), ناوەڕاست (nawerrast)
- Northern Kurdish: nav (ku) f
- Kyrgyz: орто (ky) (orto)
- Ladin: mesan
- Lao: ກາງ (lo) (kāng)
- Latgalian: vyds, vyducs
- Latin: medium n
- Latvian: vidus m
- Lithuanian: vidurys
- Lombard: mezz, mès
- Macedonian: средина f (sredina), средиште n (središte)
- Malay: pusat, tengah (ms)
- Malayalam: നടുക് (naṭukŭ), മധ്യം (ml) (madhyaṁ)
- Manchu: ᡩᡠᠯᡳᠮᠪᠠ (dulimba)
- Maori: pokapū
- Mongolian: дунд (mn) (dund)
- Mwani: kati
- Nepali: बीच (bīc), मध्य (madhya)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: midt (no) m
- Nynorsk: midt (no) m
- Occitan: mièg (oc) m
- Odia: ମଝି (or) (majhi), ମଧ୍ୟ (or) (madhya)
- Old English: middel; midlen
- Old Javanese: tĕngah
- Old Turkic: 𐰆𐰺𐱃𐰆 (ortu)
- Ottoman Turkish: اورتا (orta)
- Papiamentu: mei
- Pashto: منځ (ps) m (manź)
- Persian: میان (fa) (miyân), وسط (fa) (vasat)
- Polish: środek (pl) m, serce (pl) n
- Portuguese: meio (pt) m, centro (pt) m
- Punjabi: ਮੱਧ (maddha)
- Romanian: mijloc (ro) n, miez (ro) n, centru (ro) n
- Russian: середи́на (ru) f (seredína), среди́на (ru) f (sredína)
- Sanskrit: मध्य (sa) n (madhya)
- Santali: ᱜᱚᱵᱷᱚ (gôbhô)
- Scottish Gaelic: meadhan m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: средина f
- Roman: sredina (sh) f
- Slovak: stred m
- Slovene: sredina (sl) f
- Southern Altai: орто (orto)
- Spanish: medio (es) m, centro (es) m
- Sranan Tongo: mindri
- Swedish: mitt (sv)
- Tagalog: (literally) gitna (tl)
- Tajik: миёна (tg) (miyona)
- Tamil: நடு (ta) (naṭu)
- Tatar: урта (tt) (urta)
- Tausug: tungaan
- Thai: กลาง (th) (glaang)
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Tok Pisin: namel
- Turkish: orta (tr), merkez (tr)
- Turkmen: orta
- Udmurt: шор (šor)
- Ukrainian: середи́на (uk) f (seredýna)
- Urdu: وسط (ur) (vasat)
- Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
- Uzbek: oʻrta (uz), oʻrtacha (uz)
- Venetian: mèzo
- Vietnamese: giữa (vi), trung tâm (vi)
- Walloon: mitan (wa) m
- Welsh: canol (cy) f
- West Frisian: middel n
- White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
- Yakut: орто (orto)
- Yiddish: מיטל n (mitl)
- Zhuang: cunghyangh
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part between beginning and end
central part of human body
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middle (not comparable)
- Located in the middle; in between.
- the middle point
- middle name, Middle English, Middle Ages
- Central.
- (grammar) Pertaining to the middle voice.
- lexical middle voice
- man-in-the-middle attack
- middle age, middle-aged
- Middle Ages
- middle article
- middle atmosphere
- middle body
- middleborn
- middlebox
- middlebreaker
- middlebrow
- middlebuster
- middle C
- Middle Cambrian
- middle child
- middle childhood
- middle class, middle-class, lower—, upper—
- middle-click
- middle college
- 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, —er
- middle latitude
- middle manager, — management
- middleman (middle man), middlewoman, middleperson
- middle marker
- middle-market
- middle mile
- middle name
- middle note
- middle of bumfuck nowhere
- middle of nowhere
- middle of the market
- middle of the road, —er
- middle-of-the-roadism
- middle order
- middle pair
- middle passage (Middle Passage)
- middle path
- middle position
- middle power
- middle reaches
- middle-road
- middle-roader
- middle school, -er, — student
- middle-sized
- middle splitter
- middle spotted woodpecker
- middlestream
- middle stump
- middle term
- middle tilde
- middle verb
- middle voice
- middle watch
- Middle Watut
- middle way
- middleweight
- middle youth
- principle of excluded middle
- syntactic middle voice
located in the middle; in between
- Arabic: وَسَط (wasaṭ), مُتَوَسْط (mutawasṭ), أَوْسَط (ar) (ʔawsaṭ)
- Armenian: միջին (hy) (miǰin)
- Belarusian: сярэ́дні (be) (sjarédni)
- Bulgarian: сре́ден (bg) (sréden)
- Burmese: လတ် (my) (lat)
- Catalan: mitjà (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 中間/中间 (zh) (zhōngjiàn)
- Czech: prostřední (cs)
- Dutch: midden (nl)
- Estonian: kesk-
- Extremaduran: meyu
- Finnish: keski- (fi)
- French: moyen (fr)
- Friulian: mezan
- German: Mittel-, mittlere (de)
- Gothic: 𐌼𐌹𐌳𐌾𐌹𐍃 (midjis)
- Greek: μέσος (el) m (mésos), μεσαίος (el) m (mesaíos)
- Ancient: μέσος (mésos)
- Hungarian: középső (hu), közép- (hu)
- Indonesian: pertengahan (id)
- Italian: medio (it), mezzano (it)
- Japanese: (please verify) 中間の (ja) (chūkan no)
- Korean: 중앙의 (jung'ang'ui)
- Latin: medius (la)
- Latvian: vidus, vidējs
- Macedonian: среден (sreden), средишен (središen)
- Malay: tengah (ms)
- Norwegian: midterst
- Pashto: منځنی (manźanay)
- Persian: میانه (fa) (miyâna, miyâne)
- Polish: środkowy (pl)
- Portuguese: médio (pt)
- Romanian: mediu (ro)
- Russian: сре́дний (ru) m (srédnij)
- Sanskrit: मध्य (sa) (madhya)
- Scottish Gaelic: meadhanach
- Slovak: stredný (sk), prostredný
- Spanish: medio (es)
- Swedish: mellerst (sv)
- Telugu: మధ్య (te) (madhya)
- Ukrainian: сере́дній (serédnij)
- Venetian: mesàn
- Võro: kesk-
- Walloon: mîtrin (wa) m
- Yakut: орто (orto)
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pertaining to the middle voice
- Greek:
- Ancient: μέσος (mésos)
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middle (third-person singular simple present middles, present participle middling, simple past and past participle middled)
- (obsolete) To take a middle view of. [17th–18th c.]
1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXVII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volumes (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.
- (obsolete, nautical, transitive) To double (a rope) into two equal portions; to fold in the middle. [19th c.]
middle
- inflection of middel:
- weak singular
- strong/weak plural