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mid

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[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.Ìý(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.Ìýmediocre, 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.Ìýthe 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

/ ³¾Éª»å /

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

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noun

  1. an archaic word for middle

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Mid.

2

abbreviation

  1. Midshipman

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mid

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/ ³¾Éª»å /

preposition

  1. a poetic word for amid

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mid.

4

abbreviation

  1. middle

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mid-

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combining form

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

    midday

    mid-April

    mid-Victorian

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51³Ô¹Ï 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 ³¾±ðž»å²¹ “limit, border,†Old Irish mide, Sanskrit madhya “m¾±»å»å±ô±ðâ€; mid-

Origin of mid2

By shortening

Origin of mid3

Middle English, Old English; mid 1
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51³Ô¹Ï 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
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Did he worry about taking the drugs in the mid-’60s?

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In downtown Palisades, she and developer Rick Caruso revealed that Caruso’s Palisades Village shopping center will reopen in mid-2026 and that her flagship store, elysewalker, will become its newest marquee tenant.

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In previous seasons, the Dodgers always seemed to have 10 pitchers in their organization who could beat a mid- or low-level opponent on any given day.

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Several rivers in north and mid Wales are classed as having notably low levels, while the Dee and Yscir are at their driest since records began in the 1970s.

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