middle child

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middle child

noun middle children

In an immediate family containing three children, the child who is neither the oldest nor the youngest. 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.

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noun the child who is neither the oldest nor the youngest

Português	filho do meio, filha do meio
Français	cadet

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@misc{middle_child_2026,
  title = {middle child},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/middle%20child},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}