midway
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Definition of midway
125 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- The middle; the midst.
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noun
- The middle; the midst.
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A middle way or manner; a mean or middle path between extremes.
“Prayes, and distroyes the prayer, no midway Twixt these extreames at all.”
“Paths indirect, or in the midway faint.”
- (US)The part of a fair or circus where rides, entertainments, and booths are concentrated.
- (US)The widest aisle in the middle of an industrial complex (such as railroad shops or a coach yard) along which various buildings are aligned.
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(not-comparable)Being in the middle of the way or distance; middle.
“He told me to identify a good midway point at which I could pause the job.”
“A: Where's the ship at currently? B: It is midway.”
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(not-comparable)Halfway; equidistant from either end point; in the middle between two points.
“He stopped me midway through the job and told me to put it on hold.”
“Originally scheduled to come up mid-way through the alphabetically-ordered agenda by being listed as "Lesbianism," the issue was pushed back to 23 (out of 26 resolutions) with the renaming of it as "Sexual Preference."”
“It shell-shocked the home crowd, who quickly demanded a response, which came midway through the half and in emphatic fashion.”
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- An atoll in the North Pacific the site of a major World War II battle.
- A village in Belize.
- A village in British Columbia, Canada.
- A suburb of Swadlincote, Derbyshire, England.
- A town in Bullock County, Alabama.
- A populated place in Maricopa County, Arizona.
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- An unincorporated community in Alameda County, California, United States.
- An oil field in Kern County, California, United States, properly the Midway-Sunset Oil Field.
- A neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States.
- An unincorporated community in El Paso County, Colorado, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware, United States.
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- A small city in Liberty County, Georgia, United States.
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- An unincorporated community in Crawford County, Kansas, United States.
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- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Chaves County, New Mexico, United States.
- A town in Davidson County, North Carolina.
- A village in Madison County, Ohio, also called Sedalia.
- An unincorporated community in Atoka County and Coal County, Oklahoma.
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- A city in Wasatch County, Utah.
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- An unincorporated community in La Crosse County, Wisconsin.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English mydwaye, mydweye, from Old English midweġ (“midway”), equivalent to mid- + way. Cognate with Dutch midweg (“midway”), Middle Low German midwech (“midway”).
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