What does "mid" mean?
The middle of the battlefield.
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Mid
/mɪd/ adj, adv, noun, prep, slang
adj, adv, noun, prep, slang ·Common ·Middle school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: The middle of the battlefield.
- Grammar: mid is listed as adj, adv, noun, prep, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: accented, alveolar, amid, amid.
- Useful contrasts: beyond, early, edge.
- Usage evidence: I'm not charmed about working in mid summer.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The middle of the battlefield. Internet, slang, uncountable
"We need to retake mid."
- 2 Middle. archaic
"About the mid of night come to my tent."
- 3 A mid-range.
- 4 Initialism of mobile information device. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 5 Initialism of militarized international (or interstate) dispute. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Adjective
- 1 Occupying a middle position; middle. no-comparative
"Passing through the silent village, he heard the clock tell the mid hour of night."
- 2 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, such as, [e o ɛ ɔ]. no-comparative
- 3 Mediocre; of middling quality. no-comparative
"The song is one of his best, but its real power comes from the accompanying, highly-stylized video wherein Lil Nas X breaks out of a prison populated with Black gay men (and, for an unspecified reason, Jack Harlow in an unseemly role as the Straight White Savior who delivers a verse that is mid at best and inappropriate at worst)."
- 4 Trashy; low-quality. Internet, broadly, no-comparative
Adjective
- 1 used in combination to denote the middle wordnet
Adverb
- 1 To or into the middle of the battlefield. Internet, not-comparable, slang
"Everyone head mid."
Preposition
- 1 Amid. archaic
"mid the best"
- 2 With.
"For quotations using this term, see Citations:mid."
Slang
- 1 Mediocre or underwhelming. slang, internet, 2020s
"The sequel was kind of mid."
Example
"I'm not charmed about working in mid summer."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "mid"?
Common synonyms include: accented, alveolar, amid, amid, amidships, amidst.
How do you use "mid" in a sentence?
I'm not charmed about working in mid summer.
How do you pronounce "mid"?
Pronounced /mɪd/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
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.
Etymology 2
From Middle English mid, midde, from Old English midd (“midst, middle”, noun), from Proto-Germanic *midją, *midjǭ, *midjô (“middle, center”) < *midjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”). Cognate with German Mitte (“center, middle, midst”), Danish midje (“middle”), Icelandic midja (“middle”). See also median, Latin mediānus.
Etymology 3
Clipping of mid-range.
Etymology 4
From or representing German mit, and/or perhaps German Low German mid. Although Middle English had a native preposition mid with this same meaning ("with"), it had fallen out of general use by the mid 1400s and survived into the modern English period only in sporadic use and the compounds midwife and theremid.