Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Intermediate.
  • noun An intermediate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series or time sequence.

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  • adjective Of that which is between.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series

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Examples

  • Every building he designs has what he calls "in-between spaces," a reference to the spaces between buildings on farm compounds in rural Maryland.

    Homes That Go Local 2011

  • Every building he designs has what he calls "in-between spaces," a reference to the spaces between buildings on farm compounds in rural Maryland.

    Top Architects Go Local Nancy Keates 2011

  • Gottman helped pioneer a rigorous means to capture what happened in the so-called in-between.

    THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB LAURIE ABRAHAM 2010

  • In any case, since we are imagining that English borrows only the prefix concerning objects or life-forms of in-between status, and not the entire Swahili grammatical system of noun classifications, this detail need not worry us.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • And yet another for the concept of being “in-between,” rather than in one place or another.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • In any case, since we are imagining that English borrows only the prefix concerning objects or life-forms of in-between status, and not the entire Swahili grammatical system of noun classifications, this detail need not worry us.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • And yet another for the concept of being “in-between,” rather than in one place or another.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Ellen Contini-Morava, a leading authority on noun classifications in Swahili, argues that this prefix distinguishes nouns that early speakers of Bantu perceived as falling into gray areas, or in-between zones.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Ellen Contini-Morava, a leading authority on noun classifications in Swahili, argues that this prefix distinguishes nouns that early speakers of Bantu perceived as falling into gray areas, or in-between zones.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • People born outside the United States (first generation) have the same frequency of religious service attendance as those whose grandparents were born abroad (third generation), while the in-between generation has a lower rate of attending religious services.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

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