of a region of the United States generally including Delaware; Maryland; Virginia; and usually New York; Pennsylvania; New Jersey; "mid-Atlantic states"
North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776
the middle area of the human torso (usually in front); "young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable"
an intermediate part or section; "A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end"- Aristotle
time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period; "the middle of the war"; "rain during the middle of April"
between an earlier and a later period of time; "in the middle years"; "in his middle thirties"
of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages; "Middle English is the English language from about 1100 to 1500"; "Middle Gaelic"