mid
1 Americanadjective
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Etymology
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 mid3
By shortening
Origin of mid-4
Middle English, Old English; mid 1
Example Sentences
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Prices were already seeing a “slow, steady uptick” with spring-break travel right around the corner, said De Haan, and as temperatures warm up, fuel demand increases from now though mid to late July.
From MarketWatch
Prices were already seeing a “slow, steady uptick” with spring break travel right around the corner, said De Haan, and as temperatures warm up, fuel demand increases from now to mid- to late-July.
From MarketWatch
Penicillin, discovered by Alexander Fleming in the mid 20th century, blocks a late stage of peptidoglycan production.
From Science Daily
By mid-2025, total household deposits exceeded 160 trillion yuan, with trillions more added in just the first half of the year.
From MarketWatch
"However, nature usually has a way of re-balancing, so we are hopeful to get planting in the next month and see the crop grow even faster in the warmer mid or late spring weather."
From BBC
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