mid

UK: /mɪd/ US: /mɪd/ ,(mid)

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mid¹ /mɪd/   adj. [before a noun]

1. being at or near the middle point of:
   in mid autumn.

mid² or 'mid /mɪd/   prep. 

1. amid.

mid-, prefix. 

1. mid- is attached to nouns and means "being at or near the middle point of'':
   midday;
   mid-Victorian;
   mid-twentieth century.

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mid¹  (mid), adj. 

1. being at or near the middle point of:
   in mid autumn.
2. being or occupying a middle place or position:
   in the mid nineties of the last century.
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 hot are respectively high, mid, and low. Cf. high (def. 23), low (def. 30).

n. 

4. [Archaic.] the middle.

• bef. 900; Middle English, Old English midd- (both an adjective, adjectival and the initial element of a compound; modern spellings such as mid autumn are probably a reanalysis of mid- as an adjective, adjectival); cognate with Old High German mitti, Old Norse mithr, Gothic midjis, Old Irish mide, Latin medius, Greek mésos, Sanskrit madhya middle, Old Church Slavonic mežda limit, border

mid²  (mid), prep. 

1. amid.

Also, 'mid. 
mid³  (mid), n. [Informal.]

1. Informal Terms a midshipman.

• by shortening

mid-, 

1. a combining form representing mid ¹ in compound words:
   midday; mid-Victorian.

• see mid¹ Middle English, Old English

Mid., 

1. Midshipman.

mid., 

1. middle.

M.I.D., 

1. Education Master of Industrial Design.

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mid / mɪd/ adjective

1. of, relating to, or denoting a vowel whose articulation lies approximately halfway between high and low, such as e in English bet
2. (midder, middest) average; unremarkable; mediocre

noun

1. an archaic word for middle

Etymology: 12th Century midre (inflected form of midd, unattested); related to Old Norse mithr, Gothic midjis

mid, 'mid / mɪd/ preposition

1. a poetic word for amid

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mid- combining_form

1. indicating a middle part, point, time, or position: midday, mid-April, mid-Victorian

Etymology: Old English; see middle, mid¹