Synonyms for middle

Grammar : Adj, noun

Spell : mid-l

Phonetic Transcription : ˈmɪd l

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Définition of middle

Origin : Old English middel, from West Germanic *middila (cf. Old Frisian middel, Old Saxon middil, Middle Low German, Dutch middel, Old High German mittil, German mittel), from Proto-Germanic *medjaz (see mid). Middle name attested from 1815; as "one's outstanding characteristic," colloquial, from 1911, American English.
According to Mr. H.A. Hamilton, in his "Quarter Sessions from Queen Elizabeth," the practice of giving children two Christian names was unknown in England before the period of the Stuarts, was rarely adopted down to the time of the Revolution, and never became common until after the Hanoverian family was seated on the throne. "In looking through so many volumes of county records," he says, "I have, of course, seen many thousands and tens of thousands of proper names, belonging to men of all ranks and degrees,--to noblemen, justices, jurymen, witnesses, sureties, innkeepers, hawkers, paupers, vagrants, criminals, and others,--and in no single instance, down to the end of the reign of Anne, have I noticed any person bearing more than one Christian name ...." [Walsh]
Middle school attested from 1838, originally "middle-class school, school for middle-class children;" the sense in reference to a school for grades between elementary and high school is from 1960. Middle management is 1957. Middle-of-the-road in the figurative sense is attested from 1894; edges of a dirt road can be washed out and thus less safe. Middle finger so called from c.1000.

adj central
noun center

Example sentences :

At Fortieth Street he looked down to the middle of the block.
Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

He was met halfway by a tall, strong man of middle age or more.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

When he rejoined her in the middle of the room he gave her the key.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

Omar Ben Sufi sat down in the middle of the street, and wondered.
Extract from : « A Night Out » by Edward Peple

And accordingly, when he wakened in the middle of the night, he was alert on the instant.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

Grace was in the middle of a hasty toilet when a knock sounded on the door.
Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower

By the middle of June the wedding presents began to come in.
Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair

She told herself that her three friends were deteriorating in their middle age.
Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair

He came in the middle of the morning to the house of Garry Baldwin.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

Andrew walked squarely out into the middle of the ravine and waited.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

Antonyms for middle

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