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middle distance

noun

  1. Also called middle ground, Fine Arts. the represented space between the foreground and background in paintings, drawings, etc.
  2. (in track) a race distance ranging from 400 meters or 440 yards to 1 mile.


middle-distance

adjective

  1. athletics relating to or denoting races of a length between the sprints and the distance events, esp the 800 metres and the 1500 metres
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. Also calledmiddle ground part of a painting, esp a landscape between the foreground and far distance
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of middle distance1

First recorded in 1805–15
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Example Sentences

Aleeya Hutchins, a middle distance track runner at Wake Forest, doesn’t have any combat sports experience.

From Time

Springsteen was famous for refusing to cave to advertisers across his 48-year career, but now here he is on our Super Bowl screens, squinting into the middle distance like a parody of himself.

Low-hanging clouds nestle among the layers of mountains; horses and cows graze in the middle distance.

Hamilton competed in middle-distance running at the Games in 1992, 1996, and 2000 but never scored a medal.

Kipketer currently holds eight of the 17 all-time fastest 800m times, a middle-distance track event.

Behind her, in the middle distance, he sees a train racing toward the intersection.

Her wide-set eyes sometimes drifted to the middle distance as her co-stars answered questions.

It was a well-executed wood-cut, showing a dingue in the foreground and, to give scale, a mammoth in the middle distance.

In the middle distance ahead of her she could see the summits of Bulbarrow and of Nettlecombe Tout, and they seemed friendly.

The Bird Woman chose the middle distance, and for a last time cautioned the Angel as she moved away to lie down and shoot high.

My idea is that what artists call middle distance is better suited to her colouring.

I look into the jumbled stores of the middle distance of memory, and Beckenham seems to me a quite transitory phase.

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