Definition of "in-between" []

• Intermediate: Adolescence is an awkward, in-between age. (adjective)
• An intermediate: conservatives, radicals, and in-betweens. (noun)

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• "Every building he designs has what he calls "in-between spaces," a reference to the spaces between buildings on farm compounds in rural Maryland."
• "Gottman helped pioneer a rigorous means to capture what happened in the so-called in-between."
• "In any case, since we are imagining that English borrows only the prefix concerning objects or life-forms of in-between status, and not the entire Swahili grammatical system of noun classifications, this detail need not worry us."