- in a position in the middle of an object, group of objects, people, etc.; between the beginning and the end of something
- Pens are kept in the middle drawer.
- She's the middle child of three.
- He was very successful in his middle forties.
- a middle-sized room
- the middle-income groups in society
- The film's middle section was rather dull.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryMiddle is used with these nouns:- age
- bracket
- childhood
- …
Word OriginOld English middel, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch middel and German Mittel.Definitions on the go
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Idioms
See middle in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee middle in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English(steer, take, etc.) a middle course | (find, etc.) a/the middle way
- (to take/find) an acceptable course of action that avoids two extreme positions
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