media

Forms

Plural: medias

Definitions

Noun
A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1.The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
2.One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus.
3.An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
4.plural of medium (only in certain senses)
- The media have differed in their approaches to coverage of the scandal.

Adjective
A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

1.Clipping of multimedia.
- I have media files stored on an external hard drive.

Frequency

Overall

Common· #595

By learning goal

Everyday conversation: Uncommon
General reading & writing: Common
Academic: Rare
Literature: Rare

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin media, the feminine nominative of medius (“middle”, adjective), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”).

In the sense of a unit of dry measure, via Spanish media.

Doublet of medium, medio, and mediate.

NounNoun×A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

AdjectiveAdjective×A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Overall

By learning goal

Noun
A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Adjective
A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.