mid-
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.82 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
prefix
Denoting the middle part.
prefix
prefix
prefix
Amid.
prefix
During, in the middle of doing something.
Example Sentences
- "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"