midway
[adverb, adjective mid-wey; noun mid-wey]
- in the middle of the way or distance; halfway.
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- a place or part situated midway.
- (often initial capital letter) the place or way, as at a fair or carnival, on or along which sideshows and similar amusements are located.
- the amusements, concessions, etc., located on or around this place or way.
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Origin of midway
Midway
[mid-wey]
- several U.S. islets in the N Pacific, about 1300 miles (2095 km) NW of Hawaii: Japanese defeated in a naval battle June, 1942; 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
- an airport in Chicago.
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Examples from the Web for midway
Contemporary Examples
Kind of like the feeling so many of us Lebanese have during power outages when, midway to the bathroom at 2:00 a.m., lights out.
Crow married and says that midway through the Clinton presidency his wife began to nudge him to the left.
I lifted her as high as I could midway up the slide and eased her down with a big, squeaky “wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee.”
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But midway through his undergraduate education at Princeton, questions of “what else?”
Historical Examples
Eudora was about midway of this street when she saw a man approaching.
The Yates PrideMary E. Wilkins Freeman
Midway in the act of lifting the stove-cover, he glanced at her in sharp, suspicion.
Meadow GrassAlice Brown
Midway in them, they met a rider, riding at the maddest gallop.
Hetty's Strange HistoryAnonymous
About midway down it, what was his astonishment at encountering Hamish!
The ChanningsMrs. Henry Wood
Midway in the passage, the current picked up the cub and swept him downstream.
White FangJack London
midway
- in or at the middle of the distance; halfway
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- US and Canadian a place in a fair, carnival, etc, where sideshows are located
- obsolete a middle place, way, etc
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Word Origin and History for midway
n.
Old English mid-weg "the middle of a way or distance;" see mid + way (n.). Meaning "central avenue of a fairground" is first recorded 1893, American English, in reference to the Midway Plaisance of the Worlds Columbian Exposition held that year in Chicago. The Pacific island group so called for being midway between America and Asia. As an adverb from late Old English.
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