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mid- en · X

Etymology

See mid.

Meanings

  1. (morpheme) Denoting the middle part.
    • a mid-sixteenth-century cathedral.
    • Back in the mid-’90s, when Cacioppo was at Ohio State University (he is now at the University of Chicago), he and his colleagues sorted undergraduates into three groups—the non-lonely, the sort-of-sometimes lonely, and the lonely. 2013 May 13, Judith Shulevitz, “The Lethality of Loneliness”, in The New Republic, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2015:
    • He was born in the mid-1930s.
    • Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:
    • He's in his mid-thirties — meaning he is roughly around the age of 33-37, as opposed to one's early thirties (aged roughly 30–33) and one's late thirties (aged roughly around 37-39).
  2. (morpheme) Occupying a middle position.
    • a mid-shoulder stretch
  3. (morpheme) Intermediate
    • mid-key, midclass, midgut, midbrow
  4. (morpheme) Amid.
  5. (morpheme) During, in the middle of doing something.
    • He was hit by a ball mid-jump.

Deriveds

mid-air · mid-season · mid-winter

Synonyms

centri- (central) · dia- (amid) · midpoint (central) · especially between countable nouns (middle part) · centro- (central) · especially of space (amid) · especially of time (during) · meso- (intermediate) · peri- (during) · intra- (during) · medio- (intermediate) · especially when comparing sizes (intermediate) · especially of mass nouns (central) · medio- (middle part) · inter- (amid)

Translations (3)

tl git- (the middle part) · sv mid- (the middle part) · pl śród- (the middle part)