Word.ws English Dictionary

midplay

midplay adverb: during a play.

Adverb

midplay (not comparable)

  1. During a play.
    • LaBute’s plays are, in fact, so provocative that some past audience members have walked out midplay or screamed out “kill the playwright” or slapped an actor’s face after a performance.2009 March 29, Pat Jordan, “Neil LaBute Has a Thing About Beauty”, in New York Times

Origin of midplay

From mid- + play.

Questions about midplay

What does midplay mean?
Midplay means during a play.
What part of speech is midplay?
Midplay is an adverb.

Words near midplay in the dictionary

  1. midplane
  2. midplanes
  3. midplantar
  4. midplate
  5. midplates
  6. midplay
  7. midpoint
  8. midpoint theorem
  9. midpoints
  10. Midpollo
  11. midportion

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: midplay (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “midplay.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/midplay. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.