middle

About 104.17 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A centre, midpoint.

   The middle of a circle is the point which has the same distance to every point of circle.

2. noun The part between the beginning and the end.

   I woke up in the middle of the night.

3. noun The middle stump.
4. noun The central part of a human body; the waist.
5. noun The middle voice.
6. noun the center of the political spectrum.

   As part of his successful re-election strategy, Clinton began governing from the middle.

7. noun An essay on social or literary issues in a newspaper or magazine, originally placed between the leading articles and the reviews.
8. adjective Located in the middle; in between.

   the middle point

Similar words

midway mid halfway intermediate in-between central centre center intervening mediate

Often followed by

of ages east class and classes school age eastern

Word family

Middle middles