Definition of the Middle East
: the countries of northern Africa and southwestern Asia that are on or near the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea : the Near East
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middle
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: equally distant from the extremes : medial, central
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: being at neither extreme : intermediate
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: constituting a division intermediate between those prior and later or upper and lower
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: a middle part, point, or position
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: the central portion of the human body : waist
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: the position of being among or in the midst of something
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east
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: to, toward, or in the east
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: situated toward or at the east
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: coming from the east
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: the general direction of sunrise : the direction toward the right of one facing north
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: the compass point directly opposite to west
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: regions lying to the east of a specified or implied point of orientation
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