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mid

/mɪd/

mid adjective: occupying a middle position; middle.

Adjective

mid (no comparative, superlative midmost)

  1. (no-comparative) Occupying a middle position; middle.
    • Passing through the silent village, he heard the clock tell the mid hour of night.1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities
    • Though teams from China have hoisted the Summoner’s Cup, which goes to the Worlds champion, it’s always been South Korean mid laners who have starred on those teams. Erzberger said Knight wants to be the first Chinese mid laner to hoist that trophy — and maybe become a national treasure himself.2023 November 10, Daniel Brown, “League of Legends Worlds: Can ‘Golden Left Hand’ top ‘Faker’ to earn a grand slam?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2024
  2. (no-comparative) 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].
  3. (no-comparative) Mediocre; of middling quality.
    • 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...2021 July 26, Reanna Cruz, “Lil Nas X, 'INDUSTRY BABY'”, in NPR, archived from the original on 27 May 2022
    • I’ve watched all of these shows. They’re not bad. They’re simply … mid. Which is what makes them, frustratingly, as emblematic of the current moment in TV as their stars’ previous shows were of the ambitions of the past.2024 April 27, James Poniewozik, “The Comfortable Problem of Mid TV”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2024
  4. (Internet, broadly, no-comparative) Trashy; low-quality.

Noun (1)

mid (uncountable)

  1. (Internet, slang) The middle of the battlefield.
    • We need to retake mid.

Adverb

mid (not comparable)

  1. (Internet, slang) To or into the middle of the battlefield.
    • Everyone head mid.

Preposition (1)

mid

  1. (archaic) Amid.
    • mid the best
    • To shelter quivering natures, wrap them round / In downy softness, and impalace them / Mid fair magnificence, where all is found / Abundant as the longing heart can wish.1855, Alexander Carlile, Poems, page 70

Noun (2)

mid (plural mids)

  1. (archaic) Middle.
    • About the mid of night come to my tent.c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

Noun (3)

mid (plural mids)

  1. (disc golf) A mid-range.

Preposition (2)

mid

  1. With.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:mid.

Noun (4) capitalized: MID

MID (plural MIDs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of mobile information device.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of militarized international (or interstate) dispute.

Examples of mid in a sentence

  • In an era of AI slop and mid TV, is it time for cultural snobbery to make a comeback? [title]2025 September 28, Rachel Aroesti, “In an era of AI slop and mid TV, is it time for cultural snobbery to make a comeback?”, in The...
  • ...it just seems devoid of passion; it's just so generic, so mid, and in some aspects just bad that it seems like it's a game that just exists to exist... (02:20)2026 January 28, “They're SO MAD that Gamers Rejected Highguard”, in YouTube:

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Synonyms of mid

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Forms of mid

Adjective
superlativemidmost
Noun
pluralmids
pluralMIDs
Preposition
alternative form (obsolete)myd

Origin of mid

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.

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.

Clipping of mid-range.

Words formed from mid

Phrases with mid

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Words that rhyme with mid

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Questions about mid

What does mid mean?
Mid means occupying a middle position; middle.
How do you use mid in a sentence?
In an era of AI slop and mid TV, is it time for cultural snobbery to make a comeback? [title]
What part of speech is mid?
Mid can be an adjective, a noun, an adverb or a preposition.
How do you pronounce mid?
Mid is pronounced /mɪd/.

Words near mid in the dictionary

  1. Miculek
  2. MICUs
  3. MICV
  4. MICVs
  5. Micăsasa
  6. mid
  7. Mid Beds
  8. Mid Calder
  9. mid cell
  10. mid cells
  11. Mid City

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