(games) A children's game in which two players keep an object away from a third player (who is in between them) by throwing it past that player.

(Britain) monkey in the middle

plural of middle C

plural of middle C

Of a medium size

Alternative spelling of middleoftheroader

Collective name for a number of closely related West Germanic dialects (whose ancestor was Old Dutch) which were spoken and written between 1150 and 1500 in the present-day Dutch-speaking area. There was at that time as yet no overarching standard language, but they were all mutually intelligible.

Alternative letter-case form of Middle Earth

(archaic) The Earth / (chiefly Norse mythology) synonym for Midgard, the world of traditional Germanic cosmology, conceived as a realm between heaven (Asgard) and hell (Niflheim).

Alternative spelling of middleman