Meaning

7 senses
  1. A centre, midpoint.

    The middle of a circle is the point which has the same distance to every point of circle.

    Mittelpunkt

    середи́наseredína, среди́наsredína

    середи́наseredýna

  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.

    Mitte

    the point between the beginning and the end of a temporal period or process

  3. The middle stump.

    the middle area of the human torso (usually in front)

  4. The central part of a human body; the waist.

  5. The middle voice.

  6. The center of the political spectrum.

    As part of his successful re-election strategy, Clinton began governing from the middle.

  7. An essay on social or literary issues in a newspaper or magazine, originally placed between the leading articles and the reviews.

Examples

1444 sentences
  1. Tom is a middle-aged man.

    Том — чоловік середнього віку.

    ruТом - мужчина средних лет.

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  2. Do you have a middle name?

    У тебе є друге ім'я?

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  3. I thought your middle name was Tom.

    Я думав, твоє друге ім'я — Том.

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  4. I know his middle name isn't Tom.

    Я знаю, що його друге ім'я не Том.

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  5. I know his middle name is Tom.

    Я знаю, що його друге ім'я — Том.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
centre, midpoint:
Русский
By meaning 1
centre, midpoint:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
centre, midpoint:
part between beginning and end:

Origin

From Middle English myddel, middel, from Old English middel (“middle, centre, waist”), fro

From Middle English myddel, 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”).

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Forms

plural: middles
Singularmiddle
Pluralmiddles

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
centre:centreA2
part between the beginning and the end:centerA2midstB2
Close in meaning

Antonyms

2 antonyms

Collocations

12 patterns
  • in the middle
  • the middle of
  • middle of the
  • middle of nowhere
  • middle name
  • middle of something
  • middle name is
  • middle of a
  • middle aged
  • my middle name
  • middle class
  • his middle name

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
middle — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto