middle child
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.94 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
In an immediate family containing three children, the child who is neither the oldest nor the youngest.
Example Sentences
- "I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely."
- "As a middle child, you're not Mommy's big girl nor her little boy; you're just there."
- "Elliott [is] the forgotten 10-year-old middle child between a teenager with a lot of friends and a precocious golden girl."
- "My husband is the classic middle child, the peacemaker often overlooked by his parents."