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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:

1. the middle part of Augustplay

  Familiarity information: MID-AUGUST used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MID-AUGUST (noun)


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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