adverb

• 1Into the middle of a narrative; without preamble.

  ‘having begun his story in medias res’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The film is great at conveying an aura of homoerotic decadence, but it loses quite a bit by beginning the story in medias res.’
  • ‘We enter the story in medias res, joining on-set a company that has been laboring on that film for a year.’

  1. 1.1Into the midst of things.