mid

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adjective

being at or near the middle point of: in mid autumn.

being or occupying a middle place or position: in the mid nineties of the last century.

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 hot are respectively high, mid, and low.Compare high (def. 23), low¹ (def. 30).

noun

Archaic. the middle.

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Origin of mid

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, Old Irish mide, Latin medius, Greek mésos, méssos, méttos, Sanskrit madhya “middle,” Old Church Slavonic mežda “limit, border”; see also mid-

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mid²

or 'mid

[ mid ]

/ mɪd /

preposition

amid.

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mid³

[ mid ]

/ mɪd /

noun Informal.

a midshipman.

Origin of mid

By shortening

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mid-

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

Origin of mid-

Middle English, Old English; see mid¹

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mid.

abbreviation

middle.

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Mid.

abbreviation

Midshipman.

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M.I.D.

abbreviation

Master of Industrial Design.

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How to use mid in a sentence

In the mid-afternoon, Ramos and Liu were parked on Tomkins Avenue on a meal break.
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But with the outbreak of hostilities in mid-2011, all festivities were thrust into the deep freeze.
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Think of the embarrassing subway platform or mid-office “adjustment” debacles you could avoid!
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And Asians also showed a shift toward the GOP in the mid-terms.
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My bike ride that mid-October day starts like so many others.
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We had now approached closely to the foot of the mountain-ranges, and their lofty summits were high above us in mid-air.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
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.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
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

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

noun

an archaic word for middle

Word Origin for mid

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

a poetic word for amid

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mid-

combining form

indicating a middle part, point, time, or positionmidday; mid-April; mid-Victorian

Word Origin for mid-

Old English; see middle, mid 1

British Dictionary definitions for mid (4 of 5)

mid.

abbreviation for

middle

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Mid.

abbreviation for

Midshipman

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