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Grammar : Adj
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Phonetic Transcription : mɪd



Définition of mid

Origin :
  • Old English mid "with, in conjunction with, in company with, together with, among," from Proto-Germanic *medjaz (cf. Old Norse miðr, Old Saxon middi, Old Frisian midde, Old High German mitti, Gothic midjis "mid, middle"), from PIE *medhyo- "middle" (see medial (adj.)). Now surviving in English only as a prefix (mid-air, midstream, etc.); as a preposition it often is a shortened form of amid (cf. midshipman).
  • adj intervening
Example sentences :
  • The swan pushes from the bank and floats dreaming into mid stream.
  • Extract from : « Monday or Tuesday » by Virginia Woolf
  • "'Mid sides," answered Jourdan, turning around in his saddle.
  • Extract from : « Dwellers in the Hills » by Melville Davisson Post
  • She was free with her money, whatever else she mid have been.
  • Extract from : « The Nebuly Coat » by John Meade Falkner
  • He paused in mid stride, eying the escaped serf up and down.
  • Extract from : « Millennium » by Everett B. Cole
  • We have also the Norman form Capel, but this may be a nickname from Mid.
  • Extract from : « The Romance of Names » by Ernest Weekley
  • Bower, which now suggests a leafy arbour, had no such sense in Mid.
  • Extract from : « The Romance of Names » by Ernest Weekley
  • In Knatchbull we have the obsolete verb knatch, which in Mid.
  • Extract from : « The Romance of Names » by Ernest Weekley
  • In the cow with the crumpled horn we have a derivative of Mid.
  • Extract from : « The Romance of Names » by Ernest Weekley
  • It may also represent merry, in its variant form murie, which is Mid.
  • Extract from : « The Romance of Names » by Ernest Weekley
  • Then, sometimes, when the ship is in mid ocean, there comes on a storm.
  • Extract from : « Rollo in London » by Jacob Abbott

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