middle

Verb

• put in the middle

Adjective

• between an earlier and a later period of time
  • in the middle years
    
  • in his middle thirties
    

• of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages
  • Middle English is the English language from about 1100 to 1500
    
  • Middle Gaelic
    

• equally distant from the extremes

• being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series
  • adolescence is an awkward in-between age
    
  • in a mediate position
    
  • the middle point on a line
    

Noun

• time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period
  • the middle of the war
    
  • rain during the middle of April
    

• the middle area of the human torso (usually in front)
  • young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable
    

• an intermediate part or section
  • A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end- Aristotle
    

• an area that is approximately central within some larger region
  • it is in the center of town
    
  • they ran forward into the heart of the struggle
    
  • they were in the eye of the storm
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  center(a) , halfway , middle(a) , midway , in-between , mediate , midriff , midsection , center , centre , heart , eye
• Antonyms: 
  late , early , end , ending , beginning