An area that is approximately central within some larger region.

synonyms: center, centre, eye, heart.

Roget 29: mean, average; median, mode; balance, medium, mediocrity, generality; golden mean etc. (mid-course) 628; middle etc. 68; compromise etc. 774; middle course, middle state; neutrality.    mediocrity, least common denominator.    ... show more

Roget 222: centrality, centricalness^†, center; middle etc. 68; focus etc. 74.    core, kernel; nucleus, nucleolus; heart, pole axis, bull's eye; nave, navel; umbilicus, backbone, marrow, pith; vertebra, vertebral column; hotbed; concentration etc. (convergence) 290; centralization; symmetry.    center of gravity, center of pressure, center of percussion, center of oscillation, center of buoyancy &c.; metacenter^†.    ... show more

Roget 68: middle, midst, mediety^†, mean etc. 29; medium, middle term; center etc. 222, mid-course etc. 628; mezzo termine [It]; juste milieu [Fr.] etc. 628; halfway house, nave, navel, omphalos^†; nucleus, nucleolus.    equidistance^†, bisection, half distance; equator, diaphragm, midriff; intermediate etc. 228.    ... show more

Roget 628: middle course, midcourse; mean etc. 29; middle etc. 68; juste milieu [Fr.], mezzo termine [It], golden mean, ariston metron [Gr.], aurea mediocritas [Lat.].    straight etc. (direct) 278, straight course, straight path; short cut, cross cut; great circle sailing.    neutrality; half measure, half and half measures; compromise.    ... show more

Dutch: hart, kern
Polish: centrum

An intermediate part or section.

The middle area of the human torso (usually in front).

synonyms: midriff, midsection.

Dutch: middenrif

Time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period.

Dutch: centrum
Polish: środek, połowa

Put in the middle.

Being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series:
— The middle point on a line.

synonyms: in-between, mediate.

Roget 222: central, centrical^†; middle etc. 68; azygous, axial, focal, umbilical, concentric; middlemost; rachidian^†; spinal, vertebral.    ... show more

Roget 68: middle, medial, mesial [Med.], mean, mid, median, average; middlemost, midmost; mediate; intermediate etc. (interjacent) 228; equidistant; central etc. 222; mediterranean, equatorial; homocentric.    ... show more

Roget 29: mean, intermediate; middle etc. 68; average; neutral.    mediocre, middle-class; commonplace etc. (unimportant) 643.    ... show more

Equally distant from the extremes.

synonyms: center, halfway, midway.

Of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages.

Between an earlier and a later period of time.