English Dictionary |
MID-OCTOBER
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
IPA (US): |
Dictionary entry overview: What does mid-October mean?
• MID-OCTOBER (noun)
The noun MID-OCTOBER has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: MID-OCTOBER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The middle part of October
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("mid-October" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Holonyms ("mid-October" is a part of...):
Oct; October (the month following September and preceding November)
Context examples
But they don't occur till December or January, while the rainy season currently starts in mid-October — two or three months earlier.
(New Study Shows the Amazon Makes Its Own Rainy Season, NASA)
Since Mercury begins its characteristic slowdown far ahead of the onset of its official turnaround to retrograde, you might have started to see delays, postponements, problems with electronics and machines, misunderstandings, and other mix-ups as early as mid-October.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Learn English with... Proverbs |
"First think, then speak" (Azerbaijani proverb)
"The stupid might have wanted to help you, but ended up hurting you." (Arabic proverb)
"Don't postpone until tomorrow, what you can do today." (Dutch proverb)