mid-century
noun[U]
(alsomid century)uk/ˌmɪdˈsen.tʃər.i/us/ˌmɪdˈsen.tʃər.i/themiddlepartof acentury:
By mid-century(= themiddleof thecurrentcentury)thenumberofelderlypeoplewill havedoubled.
Population was around 5 million in 1800 andbegantoincreasequicklyaround mid-century(= around 1850).
Anumberofcharityschoolswerefoundedbetween 1710 and 1725 but by midcentury(= around 1750)this was lesscommon.
- Deaths fromdiseaseandstarvationcouldreach200 millionperyearby mid-century.
- If there is not a 90%cutingreenhousegasemissionsby mid-century, theclimatewilldestabilize.
- Until the late 1970s,arthistoriansinsistedthatabstractpaintingwas thedominantartof the midcentury.
- Since midcentury,publicdrinkingwaterhascontainedfluoride, which hasresultedin adramaticdecreaseintoothdecay.
Decades, centuries & the millennium
- century
- decade
- eighties
- fifties
- fin-de-siècle
- forties
- millennial
- millennium
- nineties
- noughties
- seventies
- sixties
- teens
- the
- thirties
- twenties
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mid-century
adjective
(alsomid century)uk/ˌmɪdˈsen.tʃər.i/us/ˌmɪdˈsen.tʃər.i/happeningin ortypicalof themiddleof acentury,especiallythe 20thcentury:
OurstockrangesfromtraditionalBritishfurnitureto mid-centurydesignpieces.
Theplacehas aclean,industrial, midcenturylook.
See also
mid-century modern
- If youlovemid-centurymodernism,checkout the University of Chicago Law School.
- Thelonius Monk isgenerallyregardedas ageniusof mid-centuryjazz.
- Anti-communism was not the only thing that gave mid-centuryliberalismitsenduringstrength.
Decades, centuries & the millennium
- century
- decade
- eighties
- fifties
- fin-de-siècle
- forties
- millennial
- millennium
- nineties
- noughties
- seventies
- sixties
- teens
- the
- thirties
- twenties
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