mid

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adjective
  1. being at or near the middle point of: We visited in mid autumn to catch the leaves at their best.

  2. being or occupying a middle place or position: The group was active in the mid 1890s.

  1. Phonetics. (of a vowel) articulated with an opening above the tongue relatively intermediate between those for high and low: the vowels of beet, bet, and bot are respectively high, mid, and low.: Compare high (def. 23), low1 (def. 30).

  2. Slang. mediocre, unimpressive, or disappointing: Everyone thinks that show is so great, but I've always thought it was mid.The shoes are really mid but the shirt is cute.

noun
  1. Archaic. the middle.

Origin of mid

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First recorded before 900; Middle English, Old English midd- (both an adjective and the initial element of a compound; modern spellings such as mid autumn are probably a reanalysis of the combining form mid- as an adjective); cognate with Old High German mitti, Old Norse mithr, Gothic midjis; akin to Greek mésos, méssos, méttos, Latin medius, Old Church Slavonic mežda “limit, border,” Old Irish mide, Sanskrit madhya “middle”; see also mid-

Words Nearby mid

Other definitions for mid (2 of 7)

mid2

or 'mid

[ mid ]

preposition

Other definitions for mid (3 of 7)

mid3
[ mid ]

nounInformal.
  1. a midshipman.

Origin of mid

3
By shortening

Other definitions for mid- (4 of 7)

mid-

  1. a combining form representing mid1 in compound words: midday; mid-Victorian.

Origin of mid-

4
Middle English, Old English; see mid1

Other definitions for mid. (5 of 7)

mid.

abbreviation
  1. middle.

Other definitions for Mid. (6 of 7)

Mid.

abbreviation
  1. Midshipman.

Other definitions for M.I.D. (7 of 7)

M.I.D.

abbreviation
  1. Master of Industrial Design.

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How to use mid in a sentence

  • We had now approached closely to the foot of the mountain-ranges, and their lofty summits were high above us in mid-air.

  • So they often occured mid-paragraph; here they have been moved to a more appropriate place.

    Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
  • Monsieur Farival thought that Victor should have been taken out in mid-ocean in his earliest youth and drowned.

  • While she flitted into the next room to fetch a stamp, Mrs. Haughstone, her needles arrested in mid-air, looked steadily at Tom.

    The Wave | Algernon Blackwood
  • It was a room without beauty, merely walls, repapered once every twenty years, and furniture of the mid-Victorian era.

    The Doctor of Pimlico | William Le Queux

British Dictionary definitions for mid (1 of 5)

mid1

/ (mɪd) /


adjective
  1. phonetics of, relating to, or denoting a vowel whose articulation lies approximately halfway between high and low, such as e in English bet

noun
  1. an archaic word for middle

Origin of mid

1
C12 midre (inflected form of midd, unattested); related to Old Norse mithr, Gothic midjis

British Dictionary definitions for mid (2 of 5)

mid2

'mid

/ (mɪd) /


preposition
  1. a poetic word for amid

British Dictionary definitions for mid- (3 of 5)

mid-

combining form
  1. indicating a middle part, point, time, or position: midday; mid-April; mid-Victorian

Origin of mid-

3
Old English; see middle, mid 1

British Dictionary definitions for mid. (4 of 5)

mid.

abbreviation for
  1. middle

British Dictionary definitions for Mid. (5 of 5)

Mid.

abbreviation for
  1. Midshipman

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