mid-

prefix

Denoting the middle part.

“a mid-shoulder stretch”

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medio-especially between countable nounsmeso-especially when comparing sizesinter-dia-especially of spaceintra-

Meanings

prefix
  1. Denoting the middle part.

    He was born in the mid-1930s.

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    He's in his mid-thirties — meaning he is roughly around the age of 33-37, as opposed to one's early thirties (aged roughly 30–33) and one's late thirties (aged roughly around 37-39).

    a mid-sixteenth-century cathedral.

    Back in the mid-’90s, when Cacioppo was at Ohio State University (he is now at the University of Chicago), he and his colleagues sorted undergraduates into three groups—the non-lonely, the sort-of-sometimes lonely, and the lonely.

    2013 May 13, Judith Shulevitz, “The Lethality of Loneliness”, in The New Republic, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2015

    Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.

    2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29

    Synonyms: medio-, especially between countable nouns

  2. Occupying a middle position.

    a mid-shoulder stretch

  3. Intermediate

    mid-key, midclass, midgut, midbrow

    Synonyms: meso-, medio-, especially when comparing sizes

  4. During, in the middle of doing something.

    He was hit by a ball mid-jump.

    Synonyms: intra-, peri-, especially of time

Synonyms & antonyms

prefixDenoting the middle part.

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medio-especially between countable nouns

prefixIntermediate

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meso-medio-especially when comparing sizes

prefixAmid.

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inter-dia-especially of space

prefixDuring, in the middle of doing something.

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intra-peri-especially of time

central

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centro-centri-midpointespecially of mass nouns

Origin

Translations

Polish śród-
  • śród-the middle part
Swedish mid-
  • mid-the middle part
Tagalog git-
  • git-the middle part
Cite this entry
APA

mid-. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mid-

MLA

“mid-.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mid-. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mid-,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mid-.

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