middle

SEE DEFINITION OF middle

adj.central
nouncenter

Synonyms for middle

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Antonyms for middle

central

adjective. main, principal; in the middle

deep

noun. the sea

Davy Jones's locker
Poseidon's realm
blue
brine
briny
drink
main
middle
ocean
the high seas

Word Origin & History

Old English middel, from West Germanic *middila (cf. Old Frisian middel, Old Saxon middil, Middle Low German, Dutch middel, Old High German mittil, German mittel), from Proto-Germanic *medjaz (see mid). Middle name attested from 1815; as "one's outstanding characteristic," colloquial, from 1911, American English.

Middle school attested from 1838, originally "middle-class school, school for middle-class children;" the sense in reference to a school for grades between elementary and high school is from 1960. Middle management is 1957. Middle-of-the-road in the figurative sense is attested from 1894; edges of a dirt road can be washed out and thus less safe. Middle finger so called from c.1000.

Example Sentences formiddle

At Fortieth Street he looked down to the middle of the block.

He was met halfway by a tall, strong man of middle age or more.

When he rejoined her in the middle of the room he gave her the key.

Omar Ben Sufi sat down in the middle of the street, and wondered.

And accordingly, when he wakened in the middle of the night, he was alert on the instant.

Grace was in the middle of a hasty toilet when a knock sounded on the door.

By the middle of June the wedding presents began to come in.

She told herself that her three friends were deteriorating in their middle age.

He came in the middle of the morning to the house of Garry Baldwin.

Andrew walked squarely out into the middle of the ravine and waited.

middle

average

average

central

core

deep

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average

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