middle

Meaning

Noun

1. A centre, midpoint.
2. The part between the beginning and the end.
3. The middle stump.
4. The central part of a human body; the waist.
5. The middle voice.
6. the center of the political spectrum.

Adj

1. (no-comparative) Located in the middle; in between.
2. (no-comparative) Central.
3. (no-comparative) Pertaining to the middle voice.

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To take a middle view of.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To double (a rope) into two equal portions; to fold in the middle.
3. (transitive) To strike (the ball) with the middle portion of the face of the bat.

Synonyms

center

centre

central

midpoint

medium

mean

midst

half

average

halfway

heart

❤️

midway

mid

intermediate

between

among

space

core

median

waist

moderate

medial

in-between

middling

half-way point

inside

in between

half-way

mediate

in the middle

eye

👁️

center

centre

partway

midsection

midterm

amidst

midriff

focus

interval

finger

nucleus

expedient

capital

exchange

emphasis

bull’s eye

dominated

desire

bull

Translations

milieu

Mitte

medio

centre

midden

mezzo

meio

centro

centro

orta

central

Zentrum

mig

medius

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmɪdəl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: middel

Inherited from Old English: middel

Cognate with Western Frisian: middel

Cognate with Dutch: middel

Cognate with German: mittel

Cognate with German: Mittel

Cognate with Danish: middel

Cognate with Swedish: medel

Cognate with Icelandic: meðal

In summary

From Middle English middel, from Old English middel (“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”).
Cognates
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.

Sentences

In the middle is Apollo the god of art , music and poetry .

The town is situated in the middle of Jutland .

The Shade River flows predominantly as three streams , its east , middle , and west branches .