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MIDDLE

Definition:

[noun] 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"
Synonyms: center, centre, heart, eye
[noun] an intermediate part or section; "A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end"- Aristotle
[noun] the middle area of the human torso (usually in front); "young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable"
Synonyms: midriff, midsection
[noun] time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period; "the middle of the war"; "rain during the middle of April"
[verb] put in the middle
[adjective] 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"
Synonyms: in-between, mediate
[adjective] equally distant from the extremes
Synonyms: center, halfway, midway
[adjective] 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"
[adjective] between an earlier and a later period of time; "in the middle years"; "in his middle thirties"