mid-december

1. 1.

   the middle part of December

   Broadertime period

   Part ofDecember

Questions about mid-december

What does mid-december mean?

mid-december means "the middle part of December".

How many syllables are in mid-december?

mid-december has 4 syllables and divides as mid--de-cem-ber under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is mid-december a common word?

mid-december is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.