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midway (enc)

Midway

Noun1.midway - the place at a fair or carnival where sideshows and similar amusements are located
fair, funfair, carnival - a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc.
2.Midway - naval battle of World War II (June 1942); land and carrier-based American planes decisively defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands
naval battle - a pitched battle between naval fleets
Second World War, World War 2, World War II - a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from 1939 to 1945
Midway Islands - an atoll in the Hawaiian Islands some 1300 mile northwest of Honolulu; site of an important United States naval base
Adj.1.midway - equally distant from the extremes
central - in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area; "a central position"; "central heating and air conditioning"
Adv.1.midway - at half the distance; at the middle; "he was halfway down the ladder when he fell"

 

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