How to spell mid-year

hear itmid·year/ˈmɪdˌjɪr/nounPrefixes and work

What it means: The middle part of a twelve-month period.

In a sentence: We have a fun field trip planned for mid-year.

Same family: midyear, yearly, year-end, half-year, quarter-year. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Mid-year” is a modern English compound formed from “mid,” meaning “middle,” and “year,” from Old English “ġēar.” English creates many time expressions this way, like “midday,” “midnight,” and “midweek.”

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