mid

Meaning

Adj

1. (no-comparative) Occupying a middle position; middle.
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.
4. (Internet, broadly, no-comparative) Trashy; low-quality.

Noun

The middle of the battlefield.

Adv

To or into the middle of the battlefield.

Prep

Amid.

Noun

middle

Noun

A mid-range.

Prep

With.

Synonyms

middle

midst

among

in

amid

medium

central

medial

mean

median

average

amidst

intermediate

transitional wave

center

interspace

so-so

mid-

middle-level

intermedius meso

intermediary

midterm

medial mean

centre

Translations

midden

medio

medio

🖕

nav

mi-

orta

στα μέσα

μέσος

mitjan

moyen

médian

μεσαίος

mediano

central

ενδιάμεσος

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mɪd/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: mid

Inherited from Old English: midd

Cognate with Dutch: midden

Cognate with German: Mitte

Cognate with Icelandic: miður

Cognate with Latin: medius

Cognate with Danish: midje

Cognate with Icelandic: midja

Cognate with Latin: mediānus

In summary

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.