mid
The middle of the battlefieldThe middle of the battlefield.
» We can make it by mid-afternoon.
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3 senses(Internet, slang, uncountable)The middle of the battlefield.
We need to retake mid.
A mid-range.
(archaic)Middle.
Examples
159 sentencesWe can make it by mid-afternoon.
Tom is going through a mid-life crisis.
ruТом переживает кризис среднего возраста. — odexed
By the time I got out of bed, it was mid-afternoon.
Tom is in his mid-thirties.
ruТому за тридцать. — sharptoothed
deTom ist Mitte 30. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Hazelnuts are harvested in mid-autumn.
Origin
Inherited from Middle English mid, midde, from Old English midd (“mid, middle, midway”), fInherited 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”).
Clipping of mid-range.
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Forms
plural: mids| Singular | mid |
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uncountable
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
4 patterns- his mid thirties
- in his mid
- mid thirties
- mid afternoon