in-between

See also: inbetween and in between

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Italic *n̥-

Latin in-bor.

Middle English in-

English in-

English between

English in-between

From in- + between.

Adjective

in-between

1. Lying between; neither one thing nor the other; intermediary.

Derived terms

• in-betweeny
• inbetweening

Translations

Lying between

• Arabic: بَيْنَ بَيْنَ (ar) (bayna bayna)
• Bulgarian: междинен (bg) (meždinen), преходен (bg) (prehoden)
• Catalan: intermedi
• Dutch: tussenliggend (nl)
• German: dazwischenliegend
• Polish: leżący pomiędzy
• Russian: перехо́дный (ru) (perexódnyj), промежу́точный (ru) (promežútočnyj)
• Tagalog: nasa pagitan

Noun

in-between (plural in-betweens)

1. An interval or intervening time.

   Synonym: interim

2. One who intervenes.
3. Synonym of inbetweener (“a person who or thing that falls between different groups or characteristics”).
   • 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:

     “They don’t belong anywhere. Colored folks won’t have ‘em because they’re half white; white folks won’t have ’em cause they’re colored, so they’re just inbetweens, don’t belong anywhere. […] ”