amidships

• POS: Adverb
• HYPHEN: a=mid=ships

CIDE DICTIONARY

amidships, adv. 

 In the middle of a ship, with regard to her length, and sometimes also her breadth.  Totten.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

amidships, adv. (US amidship) in or into the middle of a ship.

Etymology

MIDSHIP after AMID

THESAURUS

amidships

average, betwixt and between, central, core, equatorial, equidistant, half-and-half, halfway, in medias res, in the mean, in the middle, interior, intermediary, intermediate, mean, medial, medially, median, mediocre, mediterranean, medium, mediumly, mesial, mezzo, mezzo-mezzo, mid, middle, middlemost, middling, midland, midmost, midships, midway, nuclear

ROGET THESAURUS

amidships

Middle

N middle, midst, mediety, mean, medium, middle term, center &c, mid-course, mezzo termine, juste milieu, halfway house, nave, navel, omphalos, nucleus, nucleolus, equidistance, bisection, half distance, equator, diaphragm, midriff, intermediate, middle, medial, mesial, mean, mid, median, average, middlemost, midmost, mediate, intermediate, equidistant, central, mediterranean, equatorial, homocentric, in the middle, midway, halfway, midships, amidships, in medias res.