mid

¹

[mid]

adjective

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

mid

²

Or 'mid

[mid]

preposition

1. amid.

mid

³

[mid]

noun

Informal.

1. a midshipman.

mid-

⁴

1. a combining form representing mid1 in compound words.

   midday; mid-Victorian.

mid.

⁵

abbreviation

1. middle.

Mid.

⁶

abbreviation

1. Midshipman.

M.I.D.

⁷

abbreviation

1. Master of Industrial Design.

mid

¹

/ 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

Mid.

²

abbreviation

1. Midshipman

mid

³

/ mɪd /

preposition

1. a poetic word for amid

mid.

⁴

abbreviation

1. middle

mid-

⁵

combining form

1. indicating a middle part, point, time, or position

   midday

   mid-April

   mid-Victorian

Word History and Origins

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”; mid-

Origin of mid²

By shortening

Origin of mid³

Middle English, Old English; mid ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of mid¹

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

Origin of mid²

Old English; see _middle , _mid ¹

Example Sentences

It holds 396 individual large-, mid-, and small-cap stocks in each client’s account instead of a total market index ETF, and continually harvests any capital losses on individual stocks throughout the year.

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Just one of 10 large U.S. container ports surveyed by the Government Accountability Office had deployed driverless vehicles as of mid-2023, while only five were using AI and machine learning.

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Tens of thousands of turkeys and chickens have been culled in recent weeks following a spate of cases in mid, west and north Wales.

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Neuroscience shows that children’s brains are not developed until their mid 20s.

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The broad rally was driven in part by new hope for another rate cut as soon as mid December.

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Related Words

• average 
• boring 
• dull 
• mediocre 
• middling