mid
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Etymology: 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”).
Cognate with Dutch midden (“in the middle”), German Mitte (“center, middle, mean”), Icelandic miður (“middle”, adjective), Latin medius (“middle”, noun and adjective). See also middle. The slang sense may be influenced by terms such as middling and midwit.
Senses: examples: text: mid the best
text: To shelter quivering natures, wrap them round / In downy softness, and impalace them / Mid fair magnificence, where all is found / Abundant as the longing heart can wish.
ref: 1855, Alexander Carlile, Poems, page 70:
glosses: Amid.
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from adjective and preposition
word: close-mid
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word: early-to-mid
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word: inmid
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word: mid-autumn
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word: midbie
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word: Mid Calder
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word: mid cell
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word: mid-central
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word: Mid Clyth
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word: Mid Devon
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word: middish
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word: midfall
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word: Mid Glamorgan
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word: mid hundreds
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word: midleg
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word: midlight
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word: midmost
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word: Mid Murray
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word: Mid North
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word: Mid North Coast
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word: mid off
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word: mid on
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word: midpoint
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word: midquel
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word: midseason
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word: midshipman
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word: Mid Suffolk
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word: midsummer
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word: Mid Sussex
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word: midward
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word: Mid West
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word: Mid-Western
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word: mid-winter
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word: mid youth
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word: open-mid
Related terms: midday
midnight