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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. (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. Compare high ( def 23 ), low 1( def 30 ).
  4. 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.



noun

  1. Archaic. the middle.

mid

2
or 'mid

[ mid ]

preposition

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 for

  1. middle.

Mid.

6

abbreviation for

  1. Midshipman.

M.I.D.

7

abbreviation for

  1. Master of Industrial Design.

mid.

1

abbreviation for

  1. middle
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

mid-

2

combining_form

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

    mid-April

    midday

    mid-Victorian

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Mid.

3

abbreviation for

  1. Midshipman
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

mid

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/ 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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. an archaic word for middle
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

mid

5

/ ³¾Éª»å /

preposition

  1. a poetic word for amid
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog 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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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of mid1

Old English; see middle , mid 1

Origin of mid2

C12 midre (inflected form of midd, unattested); related to Old Norse mithr, Gothic midjis
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Now a woman in her mid 70s, she had never known much about her grandfather, and paid for the private test to see if it threw up anything unusual.

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Temperatures are expected to remain in the mid to high teens for England, Wales and parts of Scotland over the weekend and into Monday.

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Lewis predicted the storm clouds will dissipate Saturday to make way for a “good, dry warming trend,†with temperatures climbing to the mid 70s and low 80s in the valleys.

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This has created a political dilemma for Poilievre, Mr Wesley noted, who is now lagging in national polls behind Carney and the Liberals - a dramatic reversal after his party had been ahead since mid-2023.

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The LP was an immediate hit, even in a field as crowded as R&B was in the mid-’70s.

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