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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First Mid Bank & Trust, an Illinois bank, said borrowers had fallen behind on more farm loans and more loan payments were over 90 days late in the first quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026
Sion Slaymaker, head of emergency response at Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service, said climate change was already "having a real impact".
From BBC • May 20, 2026
Yaroslavsky, who lives in Mid City, defended her position on housing, contending that SB 79 was deeply flawed and that she is working to minimize its negative impacts.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
S&P 500 banks trade at a roughly 20% price-to-book premium relative to S&P Mid Cap 400 banks, according to FactSet data.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
This was a ground operation, and Scruggs was carrying his Mid rifle through the dense jungle foliage.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
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