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mid

Pronunciation: /mid/

“mid” is a Middle English word. Its 4 meanings in English:

preposition

  1. with
  2. amid, amidst

adjective

  1. mid-, middle, central, intermediate
  2. that is or are in the middle or intermediate in time

Etymology

Inherited from Old English mid (“with, in conjunction with, in company with, together with, into the presence of, through, by means of, by, among, in, at (time), in the sight of, opinion of”, preposition), from Proto-West Germanic *midi (“with”). Cognate with North Frisian mits (“with”), Dutch met (“with”), Low German mit (“with”), German mit (“with”), Danish med (“with”), Icelandic með (“with”),…

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