| noun | an area that is approximately central within some larger region “it is in the center of town” |
| noun | an intermediate part or section; - Aristotle “A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end” |
| noun | the middle area of the human torso (usually in front) “young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable” |
| noun | time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period “the middle of the war” |
| verb | put in the middle |
| adjective | being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series “adolescence is an awkward in-between age” |
| adjective | equally distant from the extremes |
| adjective | of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages “Middle English is the English language from about 1100 to 1500” |
| adjective | between an earlier and a later period of time “in the middle years” |
| central | adjective | in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area |
| centric | adjective | having or situated at or near a center |
| centrical | adjective | having or situated at or near a center |
| middle | verb | put in the middle |
| middle | noun | an intermediate part or section; - Aristotle |
| center | noun | a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure |