The midway is the part of a fair where the sideshows and rides are. Walk the midway, a midway stall, lights along the midway.
The word is American and comes from the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, where the amusements were put along a strip called the Midway Plaisance. As an adverb midway simply means halfway, which is the older and plainer sense.
1nounmidwayThe part of a fair where the sideshows and rides are.
“The children rode the Ferris wheel and ate candy floss along the midway.”
midway is a part of a fair.
Old English midweg, mid plus way, meaning halfway. The fairground sense comes from Chicago's Midway Plaisance in 1893.
Old English
midweġ — midway
Middle English
mydwaye
English, today
midway
From Middle English mydwaye, mydweye, from Old English midweġ (“midway”), equivalent to mid + way. Cognate with Dutch midweg (“midway”), Middle Low German midwech (“midway”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA