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MID-AUGUST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mid-August mean?
• MID-AUGUST (noun)
The noun MID-AUGUST has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: MID-AUGUST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The middle part of August
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("mid-August" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Holonyms ("mid-August" is a part of...):
Aug; August (the month following July and preceding September)
Context examples
During the mission’s approach phase, between mid-August and early December, the spacecraft traveled 1.4 million miles (2.2 million km) on its journey from Earth to arrive at a location 12 miles (19 km) from Bennu on Dec. 3.
(NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Discovers Water on Asteroid, NASA)
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