Noun

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(often, literary) A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location .

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, title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.}}

* 1995 , Mary Ellen Pitts, Toward a Dialogue of Understandings: Loren Eiseley and the Critique of Science , page 225,

At dawn, in the midst of a mist that is both literal and the unformed shifting of thought, he encounters a young fox pup playfully shaking a bone.

* 2002', Nathan W. Schlueter, ''One Dream Or Two?: Justice in America and in the Thought of Martin Luther King, Jr.'', page 89], quoting '''1963 , , ''[[w:I Have a Dream, I Have a Dream] , speech,

As he said in "I Have a Dream," the Negro "lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity."

Noun

(en noun)

A centre, midpoint.

The part between the beginning and the end.

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, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.}}

(cricket) The middle stump.

The central part of a human body.

(grammar) The middle voice.