mid
adjective
being at or near the middle point of.
mid
1 American
[mid]
/ mɪd /
adjective
-
being at or near the middle point of.
We visited in mid autumn to catch the leaves at their best.
The group was active in the mid 1890s.
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being or occupying a middle place or position.
These socks hit at the mid calf, making them good for wearing with boots.
The bark mid trunk has been eaten away by insects.
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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.
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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
mid
2
American
[mid]
/ mɪd /
Or
'mid
preposition
mid
3
American
[mid]
/ mɪd /
noun
Informal.
mid-
4
American
mid.
5
American
abbreviation
Mid.
6
American
abbreviation
M.I.D.
7
American
abbreviation
mid
1
British
/ mɪd /
adjective
noun
Mid.
2
British
abbreviation
mid
3
British
/ mɪd /
preposition
mid.
4
British
abbreviation
mid-
5
British
combining form
Etymology
Origin of mid1
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-
Origin of mid3
By shortening
Origin of mid-4
Middle English, Old English; see mid 1
Example Sentences
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Further north, no frost is expected by Friday dawn and afternoon highs will peak in the mid teens Celsius.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Cognex is set up to add 30% or more by mid 2027, according to technical indicators.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Looking into mid 2027, they see the DXY at 104 as the EUR drops to 1.10 amid revived fiscal and political concerns in Europe.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
The collected samples are expected to return to Earth by mid 2031 inside a capsule designed to survive re-entry through Earth's atmosphere.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
I’d skipped lunch and the afternoon was heading from mid to late.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
Many mid- and late-career working-class comics who would normally build the bridge to younger generations are struggling to make a living.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
As a result, the forecast calls for maximum temperatures of mid- to upper 80s at the beaches, 90s across the rest of the coast and 100 to 108 degrees for the valleys.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
For much of the last three years it has paid to simply follow the capitalization-weighted S&P 500 — like during the mid- to late ’90s, they add.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
For the full year, the company continues to expect digital revenue for People to increase mid- to high-single digits this year, and forecasts growth for its emerging and other segment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
This was what three young television producers at the Nickelodeon Network in Manhattan asked themselves in the mid- 1990s.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
The active terminations are assumed throughout by the Perf. and Pluperf. mid., and the Aorists pass.
From Greek in a Nutshell by James Strong
The mid. was received by Mons'r Baudin with much kindness.
From The Naval Pioneers of Australia by Louis Becke
A few verbs, called deponent, are throughout pass. in form, but act. or mid. in meaning.
From Greek in a Nutshell by James Strong
In N. T. Mid., “to choose out for one’s self.”
From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Robert Wallace
Besides this, all the prose oracles given at Delphi were doubtless written in Doric; as e.g. that in Demosth. in Mid. p.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
"If you just wrote DDT on the wall, mosquitoes used to die," says Dr. M.I.D.
From Time Magazine Archive
The M.I.D. is all right in its place—Good Lord!
From Astounding Stories, May, 1931 by Various
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