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🧍 Middle person 🎓 Middle-year student
middler

middler

7.8
A student in the central year of a course that lasts several years
  • noun
  • /ˈmɪd.lər/
  • Jargon
translation icon : estudiante de segundo año
  • In her second year of university, Jessica felt more confident than she did as a middler.

Examples

  • As a middler in the pre-law program, he began to focus on internships relevant to his career.

  • The schools often organize events specifically for middlers to prepare them for their final year.

  • And we can tell, you know, a middle schooler started making these sandwiches.

  • And I encountered the Earthsea novels as a middle schooler.

  • I hope she's, I hope Midler's a middler and starts meddling.

  • For example, Marian is a wonderful, hard working and bright middle schooler who is dyslexic.

  • It's time for the old to be old, the young to be whatever they are—it passed me by—and us middlers to do whatever it is we can, which, as I feel now—tossing the bag strap over her shoulder with the ease and resolve of a climber—is plenty.

    Fiction book (1990)

Synonyms

second-year
vsmiddler
  • US
46 2.4

A student in their second year at high school or university

refers to students in the central year of a multi year course
sophomore
vsmiddler
  • US
30 3.3

Relating to the second year of college or high school in the US

is used for the middle year in any multi year program not only American

Surface Forms

middler singular
middlers plural

Morphology

middler = middle (semi-transparent) = middle + er

The form is clear, but the specialized academic meaning 'student in the middle year' is a conventional institutional use that is only partly predictable from 'middle' + '-er'.

Etymology

Middler comes from the word middle meaning 'in the middle' and the ending -er meaning 'one who', so in school use it names a student who is in the middle year of a course.