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middle-earth

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The earth regarded as placed midway between heaven and hell (the upper and the lower earth or world).

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

  • noun obsolete The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell.

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  • noun archaic The physical world, as imagined between heaven and hell, or pre-Christian equivalents.

Etymologies

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From Middle English myddyl erthe, alteration (as if middel ("middle") + erthe ("earth")) of earlier middelerd, middenerd ("middle-earth"), from Old English middanġeard ("the globe, world, earth, mankind", literally "middle yard, middle inclosure, middle region") (compare mid, yard), though often interpreted since Old English times as  ("middle + earth"). Cognate with Icelandic miðgarðr ("Midgard"), Gothic  (midjungards, "mid-yard, middle abode"). See Midgard.

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