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mid¹ adj. [before a noun]

mid² or 'mid prep.

mid-, prefix.

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

mid¹ adj.

being at or near the middle point of:in mid autumn.
being or occupying a middle place or position:in the mid nineties of the last century.
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).

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 prep.

Also, 'mid.
mid³ n. [Informal.]

mid-,

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

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mid /mɪd/ adj

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

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

mid, 'mid /mɪd/ prep

mid- combining form

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

Etymology: Old English; see middle, mid¹

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