Meaning

4 senses
  1. (no comparative)Occupying a middle position; middle.

    used in combination to denote the middle

  2. (no comparative)Made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the high and the low; said of certain vowel sounds, such as, [e o ɛ ɔ].

    mittel

  3. (no comparative)Mediocre; of middling quality.

  4. (Internet, broadly, no comparative)Trashy; low-quality.

Examples

159 sentences
  1. We can make it by mid-afternoon.

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  2. Tom is going through a mid-life crisis.

    ruТом переживает кризис среднего возраста.

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  3. By the time I got out of bed, it was mid-afternoon.

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  4. Tom is in his mid-thirties.

    ruТому за тридцать.

    deTom ist Mitte 30.

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  5. Hazelnuts are harvested in mid-autumn.

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Translations

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By meaning 1
in linguistics, made with a somewhat elevated position of some part of the tongue relative to the palate:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English mid, midde, from Old English midd (“mid, middle, midway”), f

Inherited from Middle English mid, midde, from Old English midd (“mid, middle, midway”), from Proto-West Germanic *midi, from Proto-Germanic *midjaz (“mid, middle”, adjective), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”).

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Forms

, midmost
Comparative
Superlativemidmost Lesson

regular

Synonyms

91 synonyms

Word family

1 related words
Relatedmidness

Collocations

4 patterns
  • his mid thirties
  • in his mid
  • mid thirties
  • mid afternoon

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
mid — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto