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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Nerlekar, a 39-year-old fintech professional in the Bay Area, started getting into wine in his mid 20s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Thanks to mid six-figure bonuses, engineers at Samsung and SK Hynix are the hottest bachelors in South Korea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Some places could reach the mid to high 20s Celsius on Wednesday - when a typical August daytime temperature would generally be in the high teens to low 20s.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Temperatures in the Inland Empire will range from the mid to high 80s, high 80s in San Bernardino and high 70s to low 80s in the inland Orange County area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
She put Kanue at center midfielder, Natnael at left mid, and Mandela at striker.
From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John
The company said that its intrinsic value—underpinned by its business competitiveness, strong cash generation and mid- to long-term growth potential—isn’t fully reflected in its current stock price.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 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
Temperatures on Saturday will begin to climb above average again, reaching the mid- to high 20s Celsius in most of England and Wales.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Instead, he traded for it after a Lakers game in the Forum parking lot back sometime in the mid- to late-1970s, giving up one of his prized possessions as a teenager living in South Gate:
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
The successful launch of the Alpha II array in mid- January 1944 helped dispel Ernest’s gloom.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
A few verbs, called deponent, are throughout pass. in form, but act. or mid. in meaning.
From Greek in a Nutshell by James Strong
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
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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