mid: Meaning and Definition of

mid

Pronunciation: (mid), [key]
— adj.
  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. (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. Cf.(def. 23),(def. 30).
—n.
  1. the middle.

mid

Pronunciation: (mid), [key]
— prep.
  1. amid.

mid

Pronunciation: (mid), [key]
— n. Informal.
  1. a midshipman.

mid-

Pronunciation: [key]
  1. a combining form representing in compound words: midday; mid-Victorian.

Mid.

Pronunciation: [key]
  1. Midshipman.

mid.

Pronunciation: [key]
  1. middle.

M.I.D.

Pronunciation: [key]
  1. Master of Industrial Design.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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  • mid (Thesaurus)