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.
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.
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.
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.
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-
By shortening
Middle English, Old English; see mid 1
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However, her health continued to decline and she had just turned 22 when she climbed to the summit of her last mountain - Cader Idris in mid Wales.
From BBC • May 30, 2026
It trades 10% below its 52-week high and is riding a four-session win streak, its first since mid February.
From Barron's • May 27, 2026
The study examined more than 200 years of global population data and identified a major turning point in human population trends that began during the mid twentieth century.
From Science Daily • May 27, 2026
In my mid 60s, I found myself divorced and on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
It was mid morning before they got into the city.
From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan
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