medium-sized

[ mee-dee-uh m-sahyzd ]

/ ˈmi di əmˌsaɪzd /

adjective

neither very large nor very small: a medium-sized house.

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Origin of medium-sized

First recorded in 1880–85

Words nearby medium-sized

medium strip, medium wave, medium-dated, medium-range ballistic missile, medium-scale integration, medium-sized, mediumistic, mediums, medius, medivac, medlar

Example sentences from the Web for medium-sized

Julio Cesar Rosas (a pseudonym) owns a medium-sized business in Los Cortijos, a district in east-central Caracas.
Who Will Maduro Blame for Venezuela’s Blackout This Time?|Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez|June 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Initiate a program to put light-rail mass-transit lines in all our large and medium-sized cities.
Goodbye, GM|Michael Moore|June 1, 2009|DAILY BEAST
I prefer one- or two-year-old medium-sized trees, set twenty to thirty feet apart.
The Apple|Various
Edmund Paramor was a medium-sized and upright man of seventy, whose brown face was perfectly clean-shaven.
The Island Pharisees|John Galsworthy

Then a medium-sized very bright blue button with a hole to match that.
The Cinder Pond|Carroll Watson Rankin
Take 25 medium-sized potatoes, and set up a bucket or bag whose mouth is round and exactly one foot across.
Woodland Tales|Ernest Seton-Thompson
Major is a medium-sized, woolly animal, much better looking than a sheep, yet sheep is considered eatable and Major isn't.
The Shadow of Victory|Myrtle Reed

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