Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to: navigation, search


Wikipedia has articles on:


Alternative forms[edit]


From Middle English middel, from Old English middel, middle ‎(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 *medhy- ‎(middle, midst), compare *médʰyos ‎(between, in the middle, middle). Cognate with West Frisian middel, Dutch middel, German mittel ‎(middle, adjective), German Mittel ‎(middle, means, noun), Danish middel ‎(means, agent, medicine). Related also to Swedish medel ‎(means, medium), Icelandic meðal ‎(means, medicine). See also mid.



middle ‎(plural middles)

  1. A centre, midpoint.
  2. The part between the beginning and the end.
    I woke up in the middle of the night.
    In the middle of the marathon, David collapsed from fatigue.
  3. (cricket) The middle stump.
  4. The central part of a human body.
  5. (grammar) The middle voice.





middle ‎(not comparable)

  1. Located in the middle; in between.
    the middle point
    middle name, Middle English, Middle Ages
  2. Central.
  3. (grammar) Pertaining to the middle voice.



Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]


Most common English words before 1923: soldiers · speech · fast · #879: middle · effort · race · ladies