Meanings
- 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 2015Since 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 29Synonyms: medio-, especially between countable nouns
- Occupying a middle position.
a mid-shoulder stretch
- Intermediate
mid-key, midclass, midgut, midbrow
Synonyms: meso-, medio-, especially when comparing sizes
- Amid.
Synonyms: inter-, dia-, especially of space
- 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.
Origin
Translations
Polish śród-
- śród-the middle part
Swedish mid-
- mid-the middle part
Tagalog git-
- git-the middle part
Cite this entry
mid-. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mid-
“mid-.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mid-. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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