Middle | Mean of middle in English Dictionary

/ˈmɪdl̟/

• equally distant from the ends or sides
1. He walked down the middle [=center] aisle.
2. during the century's middle decades
3. High temperatures today should be in the middle 80s.
• in a state or place between two things or people
1. He grew up as the middle child in a family with three children. [=he was the child born before the youngest and after the oldest]
2. Franklin D. Roosevelt's middle initial stood for “Delano.”
• Noun
• a middle part, point, or position
1. He parts his hair in the middle. [=center]
2. A good essay will have a clear beginning, middle, and end.
3. He stood exactly in the middle of the room.
4. She opened the book to the middle and began to read.
5. The car stopped in the middle of the road.
6. The house should be finished by the middle of next summer.
7. The beginning and ending of the movie were good, but the middle was pretty boring.
8. Slice the banana right down the middle. [=slice it into two equal parts]
9. We split the cost down the middle. [=we split the cost equally]

• the middle part of a person's body
1. She put her arms around his middle.
2. He tied the sash around his middle.
• in a difficult or unpleasant position
1. She hated conflict and did not want to be put in the middle.
2. He was caught in the middle of his parents' divorce. = He was caught in the middle when his parents got divorced.
• while (something) is happening or being done
1. The protesters interrupted her in the middle of her speech.
2. He kept waking up in the middle of the night.
3. The movie was so bad we walked out right in the middle of it.
• in the process of (doing something)
1. I was in the middle of (eating) dinner [=I was eating dinner] when the phone rang.
• in a place that is far away from other people, houses, or cities
1. We got lost in the middle of nowhere.