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MID-OCTOBER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mid-October mean? 

MID-OCTOBER (noun)
  The noun MID-OCTOBER has 1 sense:

1. the middle part of Octoberplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


MID-OCTOBER (noun)


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)



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