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Webster 1913 Edition

Middle-earth

Mid′dle-earthˊ

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Noun.
The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition

Middle-earth

MID'DLE-EARTH

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Noun.
The world.

Definition 2024

Middle-earth

Middle-earth

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Middle-earth

  1. The realm of mankind in Old English mythology.
  2. (paganism) The realm of the mankind or the planet Earth in Heathenry, used as an alternative to the Norse Midgard.

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middle-earth

middle-earth

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Noun

middle-earth ‎(uncountable)

  1. (historical) The physical world, as imagined between heaven and ****, or pre-Christian equivalents.

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Etymology

From Middle English middel-erde, from Old English middangeard, anglicized from Old Norse miðgarðr, itself from Proto-Germanic *midjagardaz, combined from Proto-Indo-European *medhyo ‎(“middle”) and Proto-Indo-European *ghartos ‎(“enclosure”). Cognate with Danish and Swedish Midgård, Norwegian Midgard or Midgård. The term represents an old Germanic name for our world, the places inhabited by humans, with the literal meaning "middle enclosure".

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