mid-July
- noun
- /mɪd dʒʊˈlaɪ/
- We usually go on vacation in mid-July when the weather is warm.
And that's how we get to that mid-july date.
- And that's how we get to that mid-july date.
- Last year, mid-july I was planting cosmos, nasturtiums, marigolds, morning glory, amaranth.
Examples
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And that's how we get to that mid-july date.
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Last year, mid-july I was planting cosmos, nasturtiums, marigolds, morning glory, amaranth.
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The company plans to launch the new product in mid-July.
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The festival is scheduled for mid-July, attracting many visitors.
Surface Forms
Morphology
mid-July = July (transparent) = mid + July
The prefix 'mid-' clearly means 'middle of' and directly specifies the middle part of July, a straightforward temporal formation.
Etymology
The word mid-July comes from mid- meaning 'middle', as in midday or midnight, and July, the month named after the Roman leader Julius Caesar. So mid-July means the middle part of the month of July.