Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Middle; central.
- adjective Being the part in the middle or center.
- adjective Linguistics Of, relating to, or being a vowel produced with the tongue in a position approximately intermediate between high and low, as the vowel in but.
- preposition Surrounded by; amid.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Middle; being the middle part or midst.
- Being between; intermediate; intervening: only in inseparable compounds: as, midrib, midriff, midwicket.
- noun Middle; midst.
- noun A midshipman. Also
middy . - noun A dialectal form of
might . - An abbreviation of
amid , used in poetry. - noun An abbreviation of
middle (voice). - With: a preposition formerly in common use, but now entirely superseded by with. It remains only in the compound midwife.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Middle.
- adjective Denoting the middle part.
- adjective Occupying a middle position; middle
- adjective (Phon.) Made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the
high and thelow ; -- said of certain vowel sounds. SeeGuide to Pronunciation , §§ 10, 11. - preposition See
amid .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- preposition obsolete
With . - preposition
Amid . - adjective Denoting the middle part.
- adjective Occupying a middle position; middle.
- adjective linguistics 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; as, a (ale), / (/ll), / (/ld).
- noun computing Mobile information device
- noun archaic
middle
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective used in combination to denote the middle
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Þa ferde he mid micel færd into engle [la] nd. ⁊ wan castles. ⁊ te king ferde agenes hi {m} mid {180} micel mare ferd. ⁊ þoþwæthere fuhtten hi noht. oc ferden þe ærceb {iscop} ⁊ te wise me ` n´ betwux heo {m}. ⁊ makede ð sahte ð te king sculde ben lauerd ⁊ king wile he liuede.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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+ Ne beo in hire naþing iwrat bute chirche bisocnie ⁊ beode to criste ⁊ eoten ⁊ dri {n} ken mid griðe ⁊ mid {80} gledscipe.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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The term mid-size terror bird sounds kind of bizarre at first, as though terror birds, whatever they might be, come in a range of sizes, all of them a bit scary - sort of like coffee options at Starbucks.
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One of the finest achievements occurred the other night with Celtic defying history and winning a UEFA Champions League tie against a well-oiled Russian team challenging for the title mid-way through their season.
The Roar - Your Sports Opinion Jamie McTaggart 2009
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Although the term mid-cap may be a stretch for a company with a market cap of $8 billion, I don't think that Safeway is a large enough company to accurately be described as a large-cap.
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If you start looking at ISV-502, I use the term mid-margin diseases; blepharoconjunctivitis is a part of mid-margin disease.
unknown title 2008
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If you start looking at ISV-502, I use the term mid-margin diseases; blepharoconjunctivitis is a part of mid-margin disease.
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If you start looking at ISV-502, I use the term mid-margin diseases; blepharoconjunctivitis is a part of mid-margin disease.
unknown title 2008
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If you start looking at ISV-502, I use the term mid-margin diseases; blepharoconjunctivitis is a part of mid-margin disease.
unknown title 2008
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Instead he calls for the party to revive the spirit of what he calls the "mid nineties modernisers":For those mid nineties modernisers, making the party comfortable was never enough.
Douglas Alexander delivers jolt to Tories as he says Labour can win 2011
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The age AI has ushered in the age of "mid" – not great, but not horrid either.
I stumbled upon LLM Kryptonite and no one wants to fix it Mark Pesce 2024
ry commented on the word mid
noting a rise in colloquial use of "mid" as an adjective (and maybe a noun?) denoting risible mediocrity. Some examples in the Twitter feed
June 30, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word mid
Well noted, ry. It was a 2021 Word of the Year nominee. It came from cannabis culture - originally referring to "mid-grade weed", then expanding in use through hip hop and Black Twitter to talk about middling music, media, and celebrities. smoking mid, middest of the mid, it's mid af. It's featured in the upcoming Among the New Words part of the American Dialect Society's journal along with other nominees like hard pants and horny jail.
July 5, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word mid
mid life crisis joke: https://www.reddit.com/r/wizardposting/comments/1jtijfg/too_bad_im_immortal/
April 7, 2025