centerground

English

Alternative forms

• centreground

Etymology

center +‎ ground

Noun

centerground (uncountable)

1. (often figuratively) The area between foreground and background; middle distance.

   The farmer's wife is visible in the centerground of the painting.

   • 2008 April 3, Jaroslav Peregrin, “Book Reviews”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 1, →DOI, pages 131–135:

     And with Sellars’ shift to the centerground of philosophical interest, we have, all of a sudden, two such books appearing almost contemporaneously.

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