Median /mēˈdi-ən/ (historical)

Of or relating to Media, an ancient kingdom NW of Persia (corresponding to modern NW Iran), its people, or their Indo-European language (also noun)

Mede noun

One of the people of Media, fused as a nation with the Persians about 500BC

Meˈdic adjective

Mēˈdism noun

The adoption of Persian interests, ie treachery to a Greek

Meˈdize or Meˈdise intransitive verb

1. To become Median, or like the Medians
2. To favour the Persians (called Medes by the Greeks)

To make Median

law of the Medes and Persians

A law that cannot be changed, ‘which altereth not’ (Bible, Daniel 6.12)

median /mēˈdi-ən/

1. In the middle, running through the middle
2. Situated in the straight line or plane (median line or plane) that divides anything longitudinally into symmetrical halves

1. A straight line joining an angular point of a triangle with the middle point of the opposite side
2. A middle nervure of an insect's wing
3. In a series of values, the value middle in position (not usu in magnitude) (statistics)
4. A median strip (N American, Aust and NZ)

meˈdianly adverb

median strip noun (N American, Aust and NZ)

The central, often raised, strip separating opposing lanes of traffic on a motorway or dual carriageway

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