mid-
prefixEtymology See mid.
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Morpheme Denoting the middle part.
- 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).
- He was born in the mid-1930s.
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- 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:
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Morpheme Occupying a middle position.
- a mid-shoulder stretch
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Morpheme Intermediate
- mid-key, midclass, midgut, midbrow
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Morpheme Amid.
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Morpheme During, in the middle of doing something.
- He was hit by a ball mid-jump.