middle

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the central point, position, or part:

in the middle This is my class photo - I'm the one in the middle.

the middle of He was standing in the middle of the road.

in the middle of The noise woke us up in the middle of the night.

waist:

Those trousers look a bit tight around your middle.

in a central position:

In the sequence a, b, c, d, e, the middle letter is c.

Jane sits at the middle desk, between Sue and Karen.

neither high nor low in importance, amount, or size:

middle income The tax increases will increase the pressure on middle income families.

middle-sized Middle-sized (= average-sized) and smaller companies find it very hard to compete with these major organisations.

A middle child has the same number of older brothers and sisters as younger brothers and sisters:

She's the middle child of three.

used to refer to a form of a particular language that existed between its earliest known stage and its present form:

14th-century Middle English

Middle French

a point, position, or part that is not on one side or the other but is equally far from things on either side; the central point, position, or part:

This is my class photo – I’m the one in the middle.

The middle of a period of time is a point between the beginning and the end of that period:

The noise woke us up in the middle of the night.

infml Your middle is your waist.