What does mid- mean?
Mid- means Denoting the middle part..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · prefix
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.
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.
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.
a mid-shoulder stretch
mid-key, midclass, midgut, midbrow
He was hit by a ball mid-jump.
Use mid- when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Mid- means Denoting the middle part..
Common synonyms include centro-, centri-, midpoint, especially of mass nouns.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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).
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