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Plural of middle

regular plural

The plural of middle is middles.

Forms of middle

Singularmiddle /ˈmɪdl̩/
Pluralmiddles
Countablecountable

Middles in a sentence

  • Towns just started popping up in the middles of nowhere to mine for gold.2021 July 23, Ryan Trahan, 0:12 from the start, in Overnight in an Abandoned Ghost Town. From the entry middle of nowhere
  • There are the usual tensions between elders and middles, and between middles and youngers.2011, Carroll Anne Sheppard, Nancy Burton Dilliplane, Congregational Connections: Uniting Six Generations in the Church, page 49. From the entry younger
  • Now starting and stopping cannot themselves have starts or stops, or, a fortiori, middles either.1954, Gilbert Ryle, “dilemma vii: Perception”, in Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, page…. From the entry a fortiori
  • Evers shut his eyes and saw zinnias, roses, hollyhocks, snapdragons, gladioli, delphinia, meadow rue and petunias with soft, downturned petals and beads of yellow in their middles.2000, Martin Clark, The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 69. From the entry delphinia

Meaning of middle

  1. noun A centre, midpoint.
  2. noun The part between the beginning and the end.
  3. noun The middle stump.

Full definition of middle

Questions about the plural of middle

What is the plural of middle?
The plural of middle is middles.
Is middle countable?
Middle is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: middle (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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