Meaning
2 sensesWith.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:mid.
(archaic)Amid.
mid the best
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”).
From or representing German mit, and/or perhaps German Low German mid. Although Middle English had a native preposition mid with this same meaning ("with"), it had fallen out of general use by the mid 1400s and survived into the modern English period only in sporadic use and the compounds midwife and theremid.
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Word family
24 related wordsCollocations
4 patterns- his mid thirties
- in his mid
- mid thirties
- mid afternoon