mid

adjective

1. being at or near the middle point of: in mid autumn.
2. being or occupying a middle place or position: in the mid nineties of the last century.
3. Phonetics. (of a vowel) articulated with an opening above the tongue relatively intermediate between those for high and low: the vowels of beet, bet, and hot are respectively high, mid, and low.Compare high(def 23), low1(def 30).

noun

4. Archaic. the middle.

preposition

1. amid.

noun Informal.

1. a midshipman.

1. a combining form representing mid1 in compound words: midday; mid-Victorian.

1. middle.

1. Midshipman.

1. Master of Industrial Design.

adjective

1. phonetics of, relating to, or denoting a vowel whose articulation lies approximately halfway between high and low, such as e in English bet

noun

2. an archaic word for middle

preposition

1. a poetic word for amid

combining form

1. indicating a middle part, point, time, or positionmidday; mid-April; mid-Victorian

abbreviation for

1. middle

abbreviation for

1. Midshipman

prep., adj.Old English mid “with, in conjunction with, in company with, together with, among,” from Proto-Germanic *medjaz (cf. Old Norse miðr, Old Saxon middi, Old Frisian midde, Old High German mitti, Gothic midjis “mid, middle”), from PIE *medhyo- “middle” (see medial (adj.)). Now surviving in English only as a prefix (mid-air, midstream, etc.); as a preposition it often is a shortened form of amid (cf. midshipman). abbr.

1. minimal infecting dose

pref.

1. Middle:midbrain.