medium

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A way of communicating or presenting information.

   Painting was her favourite medium for expressing ideas.

2. 2
   noun

   A substance through which something passes or travels.

   Sound cannot travel without a medium such as air or water.

3. 3
   noun

   A person who claims to communicate with the spirits of the dead.

   The grieving family visited a medium to contact their late father.

Borrowed from Latin medium, neuter of medius (“middle”), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). Compare middle. Doublet of mid, medio, media, and meson.

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