MIDDLE DISTANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does middle distance mean? 

• MIDDLE DISTANCE (noun)
  The noun MIDDLE DISTANCE has 1 sense:

1. the part of a scene between the foreground and the background

  Familiarity information: MIDDLE DISTANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIDDLE DISTANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The part of a scene between the foreground and the background

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("middle distance" is a kind of...):

aspect; panorama; prospect; scene; view; vista (the visual percept of a region)

 Context examples 

In the foreground was the long slope, strewn with rocks and dotted with tree-ferns; farther off in the middle distance, looking over the saddle-back hill, I could just see the yellow and green mass of bamboos through which we had passed; and then, gradually, the vegetation increased until it formed the huge forest which extended as far as the eyes could reach, and for a good two thousand miles beyond.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)