mid- en · X
Etymology
See mid.
Meanings
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(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).
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(morpheme) Occupying a middle position.
a mid-shoulder stretch
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(morpheme) Intermediate
mid-key, midclass, midgut, midbrow
- (morpheme) Amid.
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(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)