| mid1 |
in the middle of (a time period or place). |
| mid2 |
amid or among. |
| mid- |
middle. |
| midair |
any location between very high and low in the air but well off the ground. |
| Midas |
in Greek mythology, the king to whom Dionysus gave the power of turning everything he touched into gold. [2 definitions] |
| midbrain |
the middle of three brain parts in a vertebrate embryo and the part of the adult brain into which this develops; mesencephalon. |
| midday |
the middle part of the day or the time anywhere near or around it. [2 definitions] |
| midden |
a refuse heap; dunghill. [2 definitions] |
| middle |
in between and equally distant from two or more things, places, or points. [5 definitions] |
| middle age |
the period of human life between youth and old age, approximately the years between forty and sixty-five. |
| middle-aged |
of a person, being of an age between youth and old age. |
| Middle Ages |
the period of European history between antiquity and the Renaissance, from 500 A.D. to about 1500 A.D. |
| Middle America |
the North American middle class, esp. as typified by the conservative or moderate political and social values of the Midwest. [2 definitions] |
| middlebrow |
(informal) a person who is considered to have very conventional or middle-class tastes or interests, and to be anti-intellectual. [2 definitions] |
| middle C |
in music, the note on the first ledger line below the treble staff or above the bass staff. [2 definitions] |
| middle class |
the social class between the very rich or the aristocracy and lower-class laborers, that includes business people, professionals, farmers, skilled workers, and the like; bourgeoisie. |
| middle-class |
of or pertaining to the middle class of a society. |
| middle ear |
the central part of the ear, consisting of the eardrum or tympanic membrane and a cavity containing three small bones. |
| Middle East |
the region along the southeastern and eastern border of the Mediterranean from Libya and eastward to Afghanistan. (Cf. Far East, Near East.) |
| Middle English |
the English language as it was spoken and written from the twelfth to the fifteenth century. |
| middle finger |
the finger that is the longest and mid-most of one's hand. |