Definitions for middles

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middles mid·dle

Spelling: [mid-l]

IPA: /ˈmɪd l/

Middles is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 159 anagrams from letters in middles (ddeilms).

Definitions for middles

noun

1. the point, part, position, etc., equidistant from extremes or limits.
2. the central part of the human body, especially the waist:
3. something intermediate; mean.
4. (in farming) the ground between two rows of plants.

adjective

1. equally distant from the extremes or outer limits; central:
2. intermediate or intervening:
3. medium or average:
4. (initial capital letter) (in the history of a language) intermediate between periods classified as Old and New or Modern:
5. Grammar. (in some languages) noting a voice of verb inflection in which the subject is represented as acting on or for itself, in contrast to the active voice in which the subject acts, and the passive voice in which the subject is acted upon, as in Greek, egrapsámēn “I wrote for myself,” égrapsa “I wrote,” egráphēn “I was written.”.
6. (often initial capital letter) Stratigraphy. noting the division intermediate between the upper and lower divisions of a period, system, or the like:

verb (used with or without object)

1. Chiefly Nautical. to fold in half.

Origin of middles

before 900; Middle English, Old English middel; cognate with German mittel; akin to Old Norse methal among. See mid¹

Examples for middles

He was met halfway by a tall, strong man of middle age or more.

At Fortieth Street he looked down to the middle of the block.

And, especially when it comes to the middle, personality counts.

Omar Ben Sufi sat down in the middle of the street, and wondered.

The same picture emerges from middle class men in the U.S., Canada, and the Nordic countries.

According to Pew, 14 of the 20 countries in the middle East and North Africa have blasphemy laws.

In the middle of all of that past suffering and present-day conflict, this Cosby bomb was dropped.

And accordingly, when he wakened in the middle of the night, he was alert on the instant.

When he rejoined her in the middle of the room he gave her the key.

Since then, the rising gap between the rich and middle- and lower-income families has risen to the fore.